US Patent Issued to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on April 14 for "FMCW heterodyne-detection lidar imager system with improved distance resolution" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,841, issued on April 14, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris).

"FMCW heterodyne-detection lidar imager system with improved distance resolution" was invented by Laurent Frey (Grenoble Cedex, France) and Anis Daami (Grenoble Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a FMCW lidar imager system with improved distance resolution. The imager system 1 comprises a reflector 42 configured to reflect, in the direction of the scene 2, a portion Sor,nc of the backscattered object signal Sor, which portion has not been collected by the collecting optical element 41. T...