DETAILED ACTION Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA. Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103 The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action: A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made. Claim (s) 5 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Kaneda (20170350964) in view of Johnston (20060072874 ) . Referring to claim 5, Kaneda shows a multiplexed line scanning light detection and ranging (LiDAR) system for measuring a distance from the multiplexed LiDAR system to features on an object (see abstract also see paragraph 13) , comprising: a coherent light source (see figure 1 Ref 110) ; a modulating controller in communication with the coherent light source and configured for generating and controlling a control signal that is transferred to the coherent light source for modulating the coherent light source to generate a pulsed wavelength-modulated coherent light beam for creating a scan pattern for measuring a surface of the object (see figure 1 Ref 114 also see paragraph 16) ; a LiDAR module connected with the coherent light source for receiving the pulsed wavelength-modulated coherent light beam and comprising (see figure 1 Ref 150 also see the balanced detector pairs Ref 160) : an interferometer for generating a sampling pulsed wavelength-modulated coherent light beam and a reference pulsed wavelength-modulated coherent light beam (see figure 1 Ref 156) , and a balanced detector (see figure 1 Ref 160 also see the IQ detection shown in paragraph 20) one or more multiplexed line scanning apparatus for receiving the pulsed wavelength-modulated coherent light beam and transferring the pulsed wavelength-modulated coherent light beam (see the scanning discussed in paragraph 13) to a fiberoptic lens element, wherein the fiberoptic lens element is actuated with a line scan pattern such that the sample pulsed wavelength-modulated coherent light beam scans a desired light pattern ; a modulation scan controller configured for modulating the coherent light source to generate the pulsed wavelength-modulated coherent light beam and (see the modulation performed by the waveform generator and the phase shifter as well as the bias control Ref 130 and 124) configured for implementing the scan pattern for the fiberoptic lens element; a signal processor that receives an electrical signal generated by the back reflected pulsed wavelength-modulated coherent light beam at the balanced detector (see the DSP Ref 180) ; and convert the electrical signals to digitized electrical signals (inherent with a DSP) ; and a computer system configured programmed to calculate the time delay determined by the digitized electrical signal from the signal processor and generates a displayed imaging range based on the distance from the target (see paragraph 21 note the external processor or computer to display distance/velocity measurements, it is well known that range in an FMCW signal is determined by time delay) . However Kaneda fails to show a fiberoptic lens element, wherein the fiberoptic lens element is actuated with a line scan pattern such that the sample pulsed wavelength-modulated coherent light beam scans a desired light pattern; and modulation scan controller configured for implementing the scan pattern for the fiberoptic lens element . Johnston shows a similar device that includes a fiberoptic lens element, wherein the fiberoptic lens element is actuated with a line scan pattern such that the sample pulsed wavelength-modulated coherent light beam scans a desired light pattern (see figure 2 also see paragraph 15 ) ; and modulation scan controller configured for implementing the scan pattern for the fiberoptic lens element (see paragraph 15) . It would have been obvious to include the fiberoptic lens and the modulation scan controller as shown by Johnston because this allows for a compact controllable scan as taught by Johnston (see paragraph 2). Claim(s) 6 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Kaneda (20170350964) in view of Johnston (20060072874) and Engberg (10324170 ) . Referring to claim 6, Kaneda fails to specifically show but Engberg shows at least two lidar modules that are connected with the coherent light source via an optical splitter or an optical switch for receiving the pulsed wavelength modulated coherent light beam (see figure 6A) . It would have been obvious to include the at least two lidar modules because this allows for a larger field of view as shown by Engberg in figure 6a. Allowable Subject Matter Claims 1-4 and 15-17 are allowed. Claims 7-14 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims. 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