ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,125, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea) and RESEARCH & BUSINESS FOUNDATION SUNGKYUNKWAN UNIVERSITY (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"LiDAR device" was invented by Jungwoo Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Hyeongseok Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaehyuk Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (LiDAR) device may sequentially select each of a plurality of memory cells based on a coarse clock synchronized with a start signal generated when light is transmitted, may supply power to a plurality of memory cells based on a stop signal generated when l...