US Patent Issued to Rockley Photonics on March 17 for "Optical components for scanning LiDAR" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,436, issued on March 17, was assigned to Rockley Photonics Ltd. (Altrincham, Great Britain).

"Optical components for scanning LiDAR" was invented by Thomas Pierre Schrans (Temple City, Calif.), Andrew George Rickman (Altrincham, Great Britain) and Hooman Abediasl (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LiDAR transmitter photonic integrated circuit (PIC) for scanning an environment over a field of view, FOV, the FOV having an azimuthal angular range and a polar angular range, the LiDAR transmitter PIC comprising: a light source for providing light from at least one laser, an optical switch having an input and a plural...