ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,372, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy), STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS (Rousset, France) and STMicroelectronics Application GmbH (Aschheim-Dornach, Germany).

"Electronic module for generating light pulses for LIDAR applications and method for manufacturing the electronic module" was invented by Romeo Letor (Mascalucia, Italy), Roberto Tiziani (Nerviano, Italy), Alfio Russo (Acireale, Italy), Antoine Pavlin (Puyricard, France), Nadia Lecci (Tremestieri Etneo, Italy) and Manuel Gaertner (Feldkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic module for generating light pulse...