US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on Nov. 3 for "Rotating reflective barcodes encoding time-varying information in reflection patterns scanned by lidar systems" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,497, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Rotating reflective barcodes encoding time-varying information in reflection patterns scanned by lidar systems" was invented by Kevin Galloway (Annapolis, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for encoding information in a relatively dense and time-varying manner. A reflector or retroreflector is wrapped around a rotating member, such as a cylinder, (also referred to as "Rotational LIDAR Barcodes"), which encodes relatively longer data messages, as compared ...