US Patent Issued to Honeywell Aerospace LLC US on Sept. 8 for "Time multiplex of lidar air-data optical channels" (Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,226, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Honeywell Aerospace LLC US (Phoenix).

"Time multiplex of lidar air-data optical channels" was invented by Mikulas Jandak (KolAn, Czech Republic), Jan Pekarek (Brno, Czech Republic), Zbynek Drasal (Prague), Viktor Drazan (Brno, Czech Republic), Jan Popelka (Neslovice, Czech Republic) and Jan Oklestek (Brno, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments describe time-multiplexing of optical channels in an air data sensor. At least one switch outputs a reference optical signal, and each of a plurality of backscattered optical signals to at least one common optical path at a tim...