US Patent Issued to Lumentum Operations on March 31 for "Optical system for light detection and ranging" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,047, issued on March 31, was assigned to Lumentum Operations LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optical system for light detection and ranging" was invented by Barrie P. Keyworth (Ottawa), Eric R. Hegblom (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and John Michael Miller (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, an optical system includes an emitter array including a plurality of emitters. The plurality of emitters are arranged in a plurality of channels and the emitter array is configured to illuminate on a per-channel basis. Respective positions of emitters, of the plurality of emitters, of a channel, of the plurality of channels, vary acros...