ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,816, issued on April 14, was assigned to National Instruments Corp. (Austin, Texas).

"System for emulating an environment for testing a frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) light detection and ranging (LiDAR) system" was invented by Marcus Kieling daSilva (Leander, Texas), Amarpal S. Khanna (San Jose, Calif.), Jason Marks (San Francisco) and Douglas Farrell (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for emulating an over-the-air environment for testing a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) unit under test (UUT). The system may comprise a lens system that receives light from the LiDAR UUT and a plurality of optical ...