US Patent Issued to Luminar Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Lidar system with input optical element" (Florida, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,034, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Luminar Technologies Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Lidar system with input optical element" was invented by Joseph G. LaChapelle (Philomath, Ore.), Jason M. Eichenholz (Orlando, Fla.), Alex Michael Sincore (Orlando, Fla.) and Lawrence Shah (Winter Park, 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 an optical signal and a receiver that includes one or more detectors configured to detect a portion of the emitted optical signal scattered by a target located a distance from the lidar system. The lidar system also includes a photonic integ...