US Patent Issued to SiLC Technologies on June 23 for "Imaging system with enhanced scan rate" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,516, issued on June 23, was assigned to SiLC Technologies Inc. (Monrovia, Calif.).

"Imaging system with enhanced scan rate" was invented by Nirmal Chindhu Warke (Saratoga, Calif.), Mehdi Asghari (La Canada Flintridge, Calif.) and Majid Boloorian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR system includes a signal director that can direct an outgoing LIDAR signal to any one of multiple different alternate waveguides. Each of the alternate waveguides being associated with a different switch channel in that a light signal that includes light from the outgoing LIDAR signal directed to a particular one of the alternate waveguides ca...