US Patent Issued to Ouster on Nov. 11 for "Optical system for full frame flash solid state LIDAR system" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,015, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ouster Inc. (San Francisco).

"Optical system for full frame flash solid state LIDAR system" was invented by Michael Bryan Borden (San Francisco), Mark Frichtl (San Francisco) and Jamie Stokes (Linlithgow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state optical system comprising: a sensor array having a field of view; an emitter array comprising a plurality of emitter units mounted on a surface of a common substrate and arranged in a two-dimensional array, wherein each emitter unit in the plurality of emitter units is spaced apart from its adjacent emitter units by a first distance an...