US Patent Issued to Velodyne Lidar USA on July 7 for "Lidar system having a linear focal plane, and related methods and apparatus" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,868, issued on July 7, was assigned to Velodyne Lidar USA Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Lidar system having a linear focal plane, and related methods and apparatus" was invented by Mathew Noel Rekow (Ben Lomond, Calif.) and Stefan Pfnuer (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device including a plurality of laser sources configured to provide a plurality of transmit beams, each laser source being positioned with a respective offset of a first plurality of offsets relative to a reference line, a plurality of transmit/receive (T/R) interfaces configured to pass the plurality of transmit beams ...