ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,503, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Innoviz Technologies Ltd. (Rosh HaAyin, Israel).

"LIDAR system with variable resolution multi-beam scanning" was invented by Ronen Eshel (Herzliya, Israel) and Nir Goren (Herut, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR system may include a laser emission unit configured to generate a plurality of laser beams. The LIDAR system may also include an optical system configured to transmit the plurality of laser beams from the laser emission unit to a scanning unit. The scanning unit may be configured to project the plurality of laser beams toward a field of view of the LIDAR system to simultaneous...