US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Feb. 10 for "Non-contiguous 3D LIDAR imaging of targets with complex motion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,894, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Non-contiguous 3D LIDAR imaging of targets with complex motion" was invented by Adam Hodge Greenberg (Gardenia, Calif.) and Eran Marcus (Culver City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of scattered laser pulses is received, each scattered laser pulse associated with at least one plurality of respective dwells. A set of 3D velocity information is received, which is derived from photo events detected in information associated with the received plurality of scattered laser pulses. Each dwell in the plurality of dwells is associated with one or more ph...