US Patent Issued to Garmin International on Aug. 25 for "Marine Lidar system" (New York, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,088, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Garmin International Inc. (Olathe, Kan.).

"Marine Lidar system" was invented by Robert A. Lewis (Flagstaff, Ariz.), Joseph R. Bietry (Rochester, N.Y.) and Heidi L. Hall (Webster, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultra-compact optical receiver supporting the laser scanning of objects in three-dimensions is disclosed. The receiver's narrow field-of-view may track the movement of a transmit beam, allowing isolation of a reflected receive signal from sensitivity reducing solar background and interfering signals. Small portions of a full receive field may be selected using a Digital Light Proj...