US Patent Issued to DENSO on April 7 for "LIDAR device with heater wire for heating optical window of housing" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,177, issued on April 7, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"LIDAR device with heater wire for heating optical window of housing" was invented by Masahiro Yamamoto (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a LIDAR device, a projector projects scanning light along a preset scanning direction, and a receiver receives incident light from a scan area. An optical window is provided in an opening of a housing that houses the projector and the receiver, where the optical window transmits the light projected by the projector and the light received by the receiver. A heater wire for heating the optical window is prov...