US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Dec. 9 for "High resolution lidar scanning" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,121, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"High resolution lidar scanning" was invented by Harry Michael Cronin (Cambridge, Great Britain), Christopher John Wright (London), Phil Peter Catton (Cambridge, Great Britain) and William Schnabel (Surrey, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lidar imaging techniques are disclosed. An example method includes projecting direct laser beams toward an area of interest, and projecting reflected laser beams toward the area of interest, wherein the reflected laser beams are reflected from a reflective surface disposed at a known location relative to an el...