US Patent Issued to Aeva on July 28 for "Chirped coherent laser radar system and method" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,413, issued on July 28, was assigned to Aeva Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Chirped coherent laser radar system and method" was invented by Richard L. Sebastian (Frederick, Md.) and Kendall L. Belsley (Falls Church, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser radar system using collocated laser beams to unambiguously detects a range of a target and a range rate at which the target is moving relative to the laser radar system. Another aspect of various embodiments of the invention may relate to a laser radar system that uses multiple laser radar sections to obtain multiple simultaneous measurements (or substantially so), whereby both r...