ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,635, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Hesai Technology Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Methods for dynamically adjusting threshold of SiPM receiver and laser radar, and laser radar" was invented by Jie Chen (Shanghai) and Shaoqing Xiang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for dynamically adjusting a threshold of a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) receiver. The method includes: receiving incident light by a SiPM receiver (S101); obtaining an intensity of the incident light (S102); and adjusting a threshold of the SiPM receiver according to the intensity of the incident light (S103)."

The patent was filed on Dec. 16, ...