US Patent Issued to Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on April 21 for "Reduced-size FMCW heterodyne-detection lidar imager system" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,745, issued on April 21, was assigned to Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris).

"Reduced-size FMCW heterodyne-detection lidar imager system" 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 reduced-size FMCW lidar imager system. The imager system comprises an optical source 10 for a coherent, continuous and frequency-modulated primary signal Sp in order to illuminate the scene 2; an optical collection element 41 configured to collect a backscattered signal Sret,c; a photodetector 50 intended to recei...