US Patent Issued to OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES on April 14 for "LIDAR system calibration" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,817, issued on April 14, was assigned to OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES (Palaiseau, France).

"LIDAR system calibration" was invented by David Tomline Michel (Orsay, France) and Francois Gustave (Cachan, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calibrating a LIDAR system proposes incorporating in the LIDAR system a reference optical path which is formed from an optical fiber. The length of the optical fiber determines a measurement reference value, which can then be used to evaluate distances of targets to be characterized using the LIDAR system. The calibration method is simple and economical to im...