ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,097, issued on June 17, was assigned to Defiant Engineering LLC (Odessa, Texas).
"Axial LiDAR doppler analyzer" was invented by Lawrence Gene Griffin (Morrison, Colo.) and Cullen Craig Keyes (Hysham, Mont.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measurement device, including a doppler LiDAR unit that includes an optical transmitter operable to transmit a signal, and which further includes an optical receiver operable to receive a backscatter signal that includes a portion of the signal, and the measurement device also includes a processor operable to determine a doppler shift as between the signal and the backscatter signal, and use the dop...