ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,181, issued on April 7, was assigned to Makalu Optics Ltd. (Yokneam Ilit, Israel).
"Scanning lidar with optical switching" was invented by Sagie Tsadka (Yokneam Ilit, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scanning LiDAR with no moving parts includes a laser transmitter with a first magneto-optic switch delivering pulses to a first linear fiber array to a field of view (FOV), a receiver with optics directing reflected light to a second, orthogonal linear fiber array coupled to a second magneto-optic switch to deliver the light to a detector, and a controller to process detector signals and generate FOV data. A scanning method for im...