US Patent Issued to HRL Laboratories on May 19 for "Optical imager and method using subcarrier multiplexing" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,735, issued on May 19, was assigned to HRL Laboratories LLC (Malibu, Calif.).

"Optical imager and method using subcarrier multiplexing" was invented by Keyvan R. Sayyah (Santa Monica, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical imager with subcarrier multiplexing uses a source transmit beam to simultaneously emit SFM transmit beams towards a target and receives SFM receive beams reflected off the target. The SFM receive beams are combined to provide a total receive beam, and the total receive beam is combined with a reference beam having the same frequency modulation as the source transmit beam to provide a receive signal that is...