ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,634, issued on March 18, was assigned to Innoviz Technologies Ltd. (Rosh Ha'Ayin, Israel).

"Systems and methods for photodiode-based detection" was invented by Yuval Stern (Even Yehuda, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photodiode-based detection module may include at least one photodiode for detecting light. The photodiode-based detection module may also include a sensitivity damper configured to temporarily reduce the sensitivity of the at least one photodiode. The photodiode-based detection module may further include a controller configured to trigger the sensitivity damper to reduce a sensitivity of the at least one photod...