US Patent Issued to DSCG Solutions on Feb. 17 for "Multiple-beam lidar using a zoom lens" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,992, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to DSCG Solutions Inc. (Chantilly, Va.).

"Multiple-beam lidar using a zoom lens" was invented by Kendall Belsley (Falls Church, Va.), Richard Sebastian (Frederick, Md.) and James Freal (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one general aspect, an apparatus configured to monitor a distant object can include at least one source of electromagnetic radiation configured to produce a plurality of beams of electromagnetic radiation, and an optical system configured to project each of the plurality of beams of the electromagnetic radiation onto the distant target object, the optical system incl...