US Patent Issued on Aug. 11 for "LIDAR systems and methods" (Russian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,629, issued on Aug. 11.

"LIDAR systems and methods" was invented by Nikolay Evgenevich Orlov (Sarapul, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing scanning by a LIDAR system, the method being performed by a controller. The method includes controlling a scanning mirror to scan a plurality of light beams outward from the LIDAR system, the plurality of light beams being created by a light source of the system, causing the scanning mirror to rotate at a first rate in a first rotational direction, and causing the scanning mirror to rotate at a second rate in a second rotational direction, the second rate being greater than...