ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,604, issued on March 18, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"LIDAR system including holographic imaging optics" was invented by Ingo Ramsteiner (Leonberg, Germany) and Reinhold Fiess (Durbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR system for detecting objects within an observation area. The LIDAR system includes an illumination unit for illuminating the observation area using multiple light radiations, each having a different wavelength, multiple separate spatial areas of the observation area, which are presently detected by a detection area of the LIDAR system, being temporally consecutively illuminate...