US Patent Issued to Dualitas on Sept. 22 for "Holographic light detection and ranging" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,051, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Dualitas Ltd (Milton Keynes, Great Britain).

"Holographic light detection and ranging" was invented by Timothy Smeeton (Milton Keynes, Great Britain), Abdullah Asmari (Milton Keynes, Great Britain) and Gavin Fowler (Milton Keynes, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR system for scene surveying comprises a spatial light modulator for displaying a diffractive pattern comprising a hologram of a light footprint, and a light source for illuminating the diffractive pattern to form a holographic reconstruction of the light footprint on a holographic replay plane in the scene. The lig...