ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,394, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Method and system for processing laser signal taken by laser device" was invented by Roman Dietz (Berlin), Denis Rainko (Essen, Germany), Geng Fu (Belmont, Mass.) and Ali Haddadpour (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for processing a laser signal to illuminate an external scene that is sectored in pixels by a laser device. This includes frequency modulating a laser signal in up and down-chirps, illuminating the external scene, receiving a reflected laser signal, measuring an up-beat signal, measuring a down-beat si...