ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,950, issued on April 8, was assigned to Ouster Inc. (San Francisco).
"LIDAR system with fog detection and adaptive response" was invented by Angus Pacala (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR system can automatically determine, based on analysis of data collected from the sensor channels during operation, whether fog is present. If fog is present, the LIDAR system can operate in a fog mode, and if fog is not present, the LIDAR system can operate in a "clear-air" mode. The two modes can differ from each other with respect to the emitter signals and/or the signal processing applied to the sensor data."
The patent was f...