US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on April 22 for "Method and apparatus for a computationally efficent LiDAR system" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,096, issued on April 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for a computationally efficent LiDAR system" was invented by Ali Ahmed Ali Massoud (Kanata, Canada) and Zhiping Jiang (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of a LiDAR system to determine the distance of an object from the LiDAR system. Embodiments of the LiDAR system can use a coarse estimate of the distance of an object from the LiDAR system which is then used by a fast search to determine an estimate of the distance of an object from the LiDAR system within a precision th...