US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA on Oct. 7 for "3-dimensional imaging lidar system" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,287, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington).

"3-dimensional imaging lidar system" was invented by Guangning Yang (Clarksville, Md.), Jeffrey R. Chen (Clarksville, Md.), Hui Li (North Potomac, Md.) and Mark Stephen (Catonsville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a lidar system including: laser transmitter and receiver systems, the laser transmitter system including: a wavelength-tunable seed laser which emits pulses at selected wavelength points, and switches between wavelengths within a switching time of greater than200 ns; a...