ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,341, issued on May 20, was assigned to OPSYS Tech Ltd. (Holon, Israel).
"Noise adaptive solid-state LIDAR system" was invented by Mark J. Donovan (Mountain View, Calif.) and Larry Fabiny (Boulder, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR system includes an optical transmitter comprising a plurality of lasers, each illuminating a FOV in an illumination region. A transmitter controller has outputs connected to respective laser inputs. The transmitter controller generates electrical pulses at the outputs so that the lasers generate light in a desired pattern in the illumination region. An optical receiver has an input FOV in the ill...