US Patent Issued to Velodyne Lidar USA on June 2 for "LIDAR system having a linear focal plane, and related methods and apparatus" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,965, issued on June 2, 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 laser source configured to provide a transmit beam, the laser source being positioned with a first offset relative to a reference line, a transmit/receive (T/R) interface configured to pass the transmit beam and reflect received light towards a detector, the T/R interface being positioned with a secon...