ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,713, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Envisics Ltd. (Milton Keynes, Great Britain).
"Light detection and ranging" was invented by Timothy Smeeton (Milton Keynes, Great Britain) and Konstantinos Papadimitriou (Milton Keynes, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of light detection and ranging comprises a displaying a first hologram of a first light pattern on a first array of light-modulating pixels and illuminating the first hologram with first pulsed light in order to project the first light pattern onto the scene. The method comprises a displaying a second hologram of a second light pattern on a second array of li...