ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,871, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Multi-detector LIDAR systems and methods for mitigating range aliasing" was invented by Dane P. Bennington (Pittsburgh), Ryan T. Davis (Woodside, Calif.) and Michel H.J. Laverne (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including emitting, by a light emitter, a first light pulse at a first time; activating a first light detector and a second light detector with different fields of view, emitting, by the light emitter, a second light pulse at a second time; receiving return light by the first light detector or the second light detector at a th...