US Patent Issued to Sense Photonics on Dec. 23 for "Power-efficient direct time of flight LIDAR" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,519, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Sense Photonics Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Power-efficient direct time of flight LIDAR" was invented by Hod Finkelstein (Berkeley, Calif.) and Tarek Al Abbas (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) system includes a light source configured to emit a plurality of light beams having respective divergence angles over respective fields of illumination, and a detector array comprising plurality of detector pixels having respective fields of detection and configured to output respective detection signals responsive to light incident thereon. The respe...