ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,728, issued on April 15, was assigned to SiLC Technologies Inc. (Monrovia, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for polarization separation in remote imaging systems" was invented by Prakash Koonath (La Crescenta, Calif.), Shuren Hu (Arcadia, Calif.), Mehdi Asghari (La Canada Flintridge, Calif.), Bradley Jonathan Luff (La Canada Flintridge, Calif.) and Behnam Behroozpour (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein are directed to polarization separation of incoming light signals associated with an imaging system, such as a Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) system. Example embodiments des...