ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,055, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to AEye. Inc. (Dublin, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for memory-efficient pixel histogramming" was invented by Hod Finkelstein (Albany, Calif.), Noah Bronstein (Dublin, Calif.) and Allan Steinhardt (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for resolving a range to an object using histograms are disclosed. A frame collection time for a depth-image frame is divided into a plurality of different collection subframes, where each collection subframe encompasses a plurality of light pulse cycles. Counts of accumulated photon detections by a pixel during the different collection subframes...