US Patent Issued to Luminar Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Hybrid pulsed/coherent lidar system with spectral signatures" (Florida, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,031, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Luminar Technologies Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Hybrid pulsed/coherent lidar system with spectral signatures" was invented by Joseph G. LaChapelle (Philomath, Ore.), Jason M. Eichenholz (Orlando, Fla.) and Alex Michael Sincore (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 (i) local-oscillator light and (ii) pulses of light. Additionally, the light source is configured to impart a spectral signature of one or more different spectral signatures to each of the emitted pulses of light, where the emitted pulses of light include...