US Patent Issued to National Central University on Dec. 16 for "Frequency modulation continuous wave lidar device" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,460, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to National Central University (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Frequency modulation continuous wave lidar device" was invented by Jin-Wei Shi (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lidar device, comprising a laser generator and a lidar unit, is provided and operated with frequency modulation continuous wave. The laser generator comprises an amplifier unit; and a reflector unit connected with at least one end of the amplifier unit. The amplifier unit comprises at least one first luminous gain area and at least one second luminous gain area. The first luminous gain area is operated in a saturated reg...