ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,384, issued on June 17, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Shot reordering in LIDAR systems" was invented by Mark Alexander Shand (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein relate to LIDAR systems and their operation. An example method includes partitioning a plurality of light-emitter devices into a plurality of groups. Each light-emitter device is associated with a given group of the plurality of groups. The method also includes selecting a group from the plurality of groups according to a predetermined group order and selecting one or more light-emitter devices from the ...