ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,383, issued on June 17, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Compact chip scale lidar solution" was invented by Daniel Nelson Carothers (Allen, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR system includes a static monolithic LIDAR transceiver, a collimating optic, and a first rotatable wedge prism. The static monolithic LIDAR transceiver is configured to transmit a laser beam and receive reflected laser light from a first target object. The collimating optic is configured to narrow the transmitted laser beam to produce a collimated laser beam. The first rotatable wedge prism is configured to steer the collimated laser be...