ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,198, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to AUMOVIO Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Coherent lidar system for capturing the surroundings with phase modulation and hardwired digital circuit" was invented by Markus Wintermantel (Lindau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coherent lidar system for capturing the surroundings is configured to emit a phase-modulated signal with pseudo-random change over discrete phase values. The system receives the signals reflected back from objects and converts the signals into a low-frequency signal by mixing and digitizing. The system includes a digital signal processing f...