US Patent Issued to Lumentum Operations on April 7 for "Optical system for light detection and ranging" (Canadian, American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,182, issued on April 7, was assigned to Lumentum Operations LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optical system for light detection and ranging" was invented by James Chen (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Michael Miller (Ottawa), Eric R. Hegblom (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Lijun Zhu (Dublin, Calif.) and Paul Colbourne (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system includes a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) array including a plurality of VCSELs. The VCSEL array may have a first aspect ratio. The LIDAR system may include a set of transmission optics configured to receive light from th...