ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,448, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Hybrid lidar receiver and lidar methods" was invented by Boris Kirillov (Judendorf-StraBenge, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of scanning a field of view implemented by a Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) system includes transmitting pulsed light into the field of view; receiving, by a photodetector array, light from the field of view, wherein the photodetector array is configured to receive the light from objects in the field of view corresponding to ambient light and the pulsed light reflected therefrom; generating, by the phot...