US Patent Issued to Luminar Technologies on May 20 for "Lidar system with locally retraced scan lines" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,309, issued on May 20, was assigned to Luminar Technologies Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Lidar system with locally retraced scan lines" was invented by Istvan Peter Burbank (Orlando, Fla.), Matthew D. Weed (Orlando, Fla.), Jason Paul Wojack (Oviedo, Fla.) and Jason M. Eichenholz (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a lidar system includes a light source configured to emit pulses of light and a scanner configured to scan the emitted pulses of light along a high-resolution scan pattern located within a field of regard of the lidar system. The scanner includes one or more scan mirrors configured to (i) scan the emi...