US Patent Issued to Sense Photonics on Jan. 13 for "Methods and systems for thermal control of an optical source or optical filter in a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) apparatus" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,892, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sense Photonics Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Methods and systems for thermal control of an optical source or optical filter in a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) apparatus" was invented by Christine Elizabeth Cordeiro (San Francisco), Hod Finkelstein (Berkeley, Calif.), Jamie Stokes (Linlithgow, Great Britain) and Neil Telfer (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) apparatus includes an optical emission source configured to emit an optical signal having a wavelength that varies based on a temperature of the optical emission source and/or an opt...