US Patent Issued to nLIGHT on Dec. 9 for "Reducing interference in an active illumination environment" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,105, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to nLIGHT Inc. (Camas, Wash.).

"Reducing interference in an active illumination environment" was invented by Bodo Schmidt (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems and methods are disclosed for reducing interference between an active illumination device and external radiation sources, for example, other active illumination devices operating within the vicinity. A disclosed system includes one or more active illumination devices, each configured to emit an illumination signal and also to receive a returned portion of its respective illumination signal with at least one sen...