ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,770, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Ouster Inc. (San Francisco).

"Processing time-series measurements for LIDAR accuracy" was invented by Angus Pacala (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 light source and corresponding photosensor configured to emit and detect photons reflected from objects in a surrounding environment for optical measurements. An initial peak can be identified as resulting from reflections off a housing of the optical measurement system. This peak can be removed or used to calibrate measurement calculations of the system. Peaks r...