US Patent Issued to Microvision on Sept. 1 for "Lidar system with polygon mirror" (Florida, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,149, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Microvision Inc. (Redmond, Wash.).

"Lidar system with polygon mirror" was invented by Jason M. Eichenholz (Orlando, Fla.), Scott R. Campbell (Sanford, Fla.), John E. McWhirter (Winter Park, Fla.), Matthew D. Weed (Orlando, Fla.) and Lane A. Martin (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lidar system includes one or more light sources configured to generate a first beam of light and a second beam of light, a scanner configured to scan the first and second beams of light across a field of regard of the lidar system, and a receiver configured to detect the first beam of light and the se...