ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,495, issued on June 9, was assigned to OPSYS Tech Ltd. (Holon, Israel).

"Distributed modular solid-state LIDAR system" was invented by Mark J. Donovan (Mountain View, Calif.), Larry Fabiny (Boulder, Colo.) and Minh Duong (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR system includes a first optical transmitter comprising a plurality of first emitters, where each of the plurality of first emitters is positioned to generate an optical beam with a FOV at a target range when energized. A second optical transmitter includes a plurality of second emitters, where each of the plurality of second emitters is positioned to generate an...