US Patent Issued to Ouster on June 3 for "Multispectral ranging and imaging systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,696, issued on June 3, was assigned to Ouster Inc. (San Francisco).

"Multispectral ranging and imaging systems" was invented by Angus Pacala (San Francisco) and Mark Frichtl (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multispectral sensor array can include a combination of ranging sensor channels (e.g., LIDAR sensor channels) and ambient-light sensor channels tuned to detect ambient light having a channel-specific property (e.g., color). The sensor channels can be arranged and spaced to provide multispectral images of a field of view in which the multispectral images from different sensors are inherently aligned with each other to...