US Patent Issued to Sense Photonics on March 25 for "DRAM-based LIDAR pixel" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,498, issued on March 25, was assigned to Sense Photonics Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"DRAM-based LIDAR pixel" was invented by Robert Henderson (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Hod Finkelstein (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) detector circuit includes a memory device comprising a non-transitory storage medium that is configured to store data indicative of detection events in respective memory bins, and at least one control circuit. The at least one control circuit is configured to receive detection signals from one or more photodetector elements, identify a presence or an absence of detect...