ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,344, issued on May 20, was assigned to SiLC Technologies Inc. (Monrovia, Calif.).
"Reduction of components in LIDAR systems" was invented by Bradley Jonathan Luff (La Canada Flintridge, Calif.), Mehdi Asghari (La Canada Flintridge, Calif.) and Behnam Behroozpour (South San Francisco, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR system includes one or more optical components that output multiple system output signals. The system also includes electronics that use light from the system output signals to generate LIDAR data. The LIDAR data indicates a distance and/or radial velocity between the LIDAR system and one or more object locat...