Innoviz Technologies files patent for LIDAR system which uses prism scanner (WO2022053874A2)

It turn out the claims have been heavily amended and all mentions of prism seem to be removed.
So going to drop this for now.

I Note that you can file preissuance  claim via USPTO. , if you are within the legal window of 6 months. This procedure is free.

Original claims are:

1. A LIDAR system, comprising: a laser emission unit configured to generate a plurality of laser beams; and an optical system configured to transmit the plurality of laser beams from the laser emission unit to a common scanning unit, wherein the common scanning unit is configured to project the plurality of laser beams toward a field of view of the LIDAR system to simultaneously scan the field of view along a plurality of scan lines traversing the field of view.

2. The LIDAR system of claim 1, wherein the common scanning unit includes a light-transmissive scanning prism.

Public source predating this application is here Revision history of "Open hardware fast high resolution LASER" - RepRap.
I added to the public domain exactly on  05:34, 5 June 2019‎ Henri Starmans (talk | contribs)‎ . . (52,188 bytes) (+1,044)‎ . . (improved lidar section, removed type, added some background history of MEMS)