ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,797, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Y.E. Hub Armenia LLC (Yerevan, Armenia).

"LiDAR detection methods and systems" was invented by Dmitry Valentinovich Solomentsev (Moscow), Andrey Viktorovich Golikov (Moscow), Nikolay Evgenevich Orlov (Udmurtskaya Resp, Russia) and Vladimir Albertovich Kuznetsov (Moscow).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LiDAR system and a method for operation thereof are provided. The LiDAR system comprises: a frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) light source configured to produce an FMCW signal; and an amplitude modulator configured to modulate an amplitude of at least a portion of the FMCW signal, thereby...