ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,654, issued on July 29, was assigned to AEye Inc. (Dublin, Calif.).

"Adaptive control of ladar systems using spatial index of prior ladar return data" was invented by Luis Carlos Dussan (Dublin, Calif.), Allan Steinhardt (Dublin, Calif.), Federico Presutti (Dublin, Calif.) and Joel David Benscoter (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are examples of ladar systems and methods where data about a plurality of ladar returns from prior ladar pulse shots gets stored in a spatial index that associates ladar return data with corresponding locations in a coordinate space to which the ladar return data pertain. This ...