US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on July 22 for "Methods and apparatus for lidar operation with sequencing of pulses" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,642, issued on July 22, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus for lidar operation with sequencing of pulses" was invented by Nirmal C. Warke (Saratoga, Calif.), David P. Magee (Allen, Texas) and Baher S. Haroun (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described example aspects include an integrated circuit includes a timing controller configured to select a selected time slot in a measurement period having a plurality of time slots and a transmit driver configured to provide a transmit signal in accordance with the selected time slot, in which the transmit signal is transmitted to an optical tran...