ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,362, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Ouster Inc. (San Francisco).
"Configurable memory blocks for LIDAR measurements" was invented by Angus Pacala (San Francisco), Yan Zhao (San Francisco), Boyi Ma (San Francisco) and Marvin Shu (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical measurement system may include a plurality of light sources and a plurality of photosensors, where the photosensors are configured to receive photons from the light sources that are reflected off objects in the surrounding environment. Photons may be stored in memory blocks corresponding to the photosensors to form histograms of the receive photons. A ...