US Patent Issued to Microvision on June 2 for "Coherent pulsed lidar system with two-sided detector" (Florida, Oregon, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,970, issued on June 2, was assigned to Microvision Inc. (Redmond, Wash.).

"Coherent pulsed lidar system with two-sided detector" was invented by Lawrence Shah (Winter Park, Fla.), Alex Michael Sincore (Orlando, Fla.), Roger S. Cannon (Oviedo, Fla.), Joseph G. LaChapelle (Philomath, Ore.), Stephen D. Gaalema (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Jason M. Eichenholz (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a lidar system includes a light source configured to emit (i) local-oscillator light and (ii) pulses of light. The lidar system also includes a receiver configured to detect the local-oscillator light and a received pu...