ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,568, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Aeva Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Techniques for peak detection in a LIDAR system" was invented by Jose Krause Perin (Mountain View, Calif.), Esha John (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kumar Bhargav Viswanatha (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mina Rezk (Haymarket, Va.) and Rajendra Tushar Moorti (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system performs a method including generating a frequency domain waveform based on a baseband signal in a time domain, determining a first likelihood metric for frequencies in the frequency domain waveform, and identifying one or ...