US Patent Issued to Lyft on Jan. 27 for "Tunable LiDAR for simultaneous ranging and environmental monitoring" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,588, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).

"Tunable LiDAR for simultaneous ranging and environmental monitoring" was invented by Farzad Cyrus Foroughi Abari (San Bruno, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes emitting, by an automotive vehicle, one or more light beams from a LiDAR system toward an environment surrounding the automotive vehicle, receiving one or more return light beams at the LiDAR system of the automotive vehicle, detecting one or more objects located in the environment surrounding the automotive vehicle based on the return light beams, and simultaneously mea...