ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,358, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Laser radar device performing multi-stage amplification" was invented by Hong-Seok Seo (Daejeon, South Korea), Bongki Mheen (Daejeon, South Korea) and Munhyun Han (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a laser radar device, which includes a signal light source that outputs a first signal light, a pump light source that outputs a pump light, a pump optical fiber that transfers the pump light, a first signal optical fiber that transfers the first signal light, a first amplifier that receives ...