US Patent Issued to Dualitas on Sept. 15 for "Light detection and ranging" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,640, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Dualitas Ltd (Milton Keynes, Great Britain).

"Light detection and ranging" was invented by Timothy Smeeton (Milton Keynes, Great Britain) and Konstantinos Papadimitriou (Milton Keynes, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR system comprises a spatial light modulator for displaying a diffractive pattern comprising a hologram of a structured light pattern that is projected onto a scene. The structured light pattern comprises an array of light spots and a light source for illuminating the diffractive pattern to form a holographic reconstruction of the light pattern. A detection sub...