US Patent Issued to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory on Oct. 28 for "Convolved augmented range lidar nominal area" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,356, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Convolved augmented range lidar nominal area" was invented by Joseph Hollmann (Watertown, Mass.) and Zachary R. Hoffman (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of lidar imaging pulses a scene with laser pulse sequences from a laser light source. Reflected light from the scene is measured for each laser pulse to form a sequence of time resolved light signals. Adjoining time bins in the time resolved light signals are combined to form super time bins. A three dimensional image of the scene is created from distances determined b...