US Patent Issued to OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES on Sept. 23 for "LIDAR system for differential absorption and background distance measurements" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,355, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES (Palaiseau, France).

"LIDAR system for differential absorption and background distance measurements" was invented by Laurent Lombard (Palaiseau, France), Anne Durecu (Palaiseau, France), Nicolas Cezard (Palaiseau, France), Francois Gustave (Palaiseau, France) and Guillaume Canat (Palaiseau, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR system is adapted for performing differential absorption measurements of a chemical compound between two distinct optical frequencies (Nu1, Nu2), and for measuring a separation distance from an obstacle wh...