US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Nov. 3 for "LiDAR device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,517, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"LiDAR device" was invented by Mio Nishida (Tokyo), Kenichi Hirosawa (Tokyo) and Takayuki Yanagisawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein disclosed is a LiDAR device including: a light source to output laser light; a demultiplexer/distributor to receive the laser light output from the light source and to output local oscillation light and signal light beams; amplifiers to amplify the respective signal light beams; light transmission/reception devices to emit, as transmission light, the signal light beams into space, and to receive, as reception light, sc...