US Patent Issued to Scantinel Photonics on March 17 for "Device and method for scanning frequency-modulated continuous-wave LiDAR range measurement" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,438, issued on March 17, was assigned to Scantinel Photonics GmbH (Ulm, Germany).

"Device and method for scanning frequency-modulated continuous-wave LiDAR range measurement" was invented by Vladimir Davydenko (Bad Herrenalb, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for scanning range measurement to an object has a light source that generates an optical output signal having a varying frequency. A plurality of optical processing units are connected optically in parallel to the light source. Each processing unit has an optical distribution matrix with a plurality of optical switches that distribute the optical output signals fr...