ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,182, issued on July 14, was assigned to 3DEO INC. (Norwood, Mass.).
"System and method for an airborne mapping lidar" was invented by Brandon R. Call (Orem, Utah), Dale G. Fried (Dover, Mass.), David Kelley (Norwood, Mass.) and Christopher Reichert (Norwood, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for generating an image of a region of interest (ROI) from a flying aircraft using a light detection and ranging (lidar) system that includes a transmitter, a receiver, an inertial navigation system, a scanning system, and a system control and a data processing computer. The transmitter includes a pulsed laser. The receiver includes a...