ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,339, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Expanding a dynamic range of SPAD-based detectors" was invented by Daniel Stricker-Shaver (Besigheim, Germany), Mathias Bachmeir (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Remigius Has (Grafenau-Daetzingen, Germany) and Thomas Hasenohr (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a LIDAR device by a control unit is provided. At least one beam pulse is emitted into a sampling range by a beam source, and beams that are reflected and/or back-scattered from the sampling range are received by a detector that includes multiple single-phot...