ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,278, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Red Creamery LLC (Massapequa Park, N.Y.).
"Hybrid LIDAR with optically enhanced scanned laser" was invented by Dmitriy Yavid (Stony Brook, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle LIDAR system includes: a laser; optical transmission system to shape/scan the light beam along light paths toward a target; an optical reception system collecting reflected laser light; and an electronic system synchronizing the beam scan, performing time-of-arrival measurements, and determining target range. The reception system includes an objective lens and a one-dimensional sensor array, each sens...