US Patent Issued to Luminar Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Method for dynamically controlling laser power" (Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,345, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Luminar Technologies Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Method for dynamically controlling laser power" was invented by Austin K. Russell (Orlando, Fla.), Jason M. Eichenholz (Orlando, Fla.) and Laurance S. Lingvay (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To dynamically control power in a lidar system, a controller identifies a triggering event and provides a control signal to a light source in the lidar system adjusting the power of light pulses emitted by the light source. The triggering event includes identifying a particular type of object within a threshold distance of the lidar system. In some ...