ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,986, issued on June 2, was assigned to AEVA INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Techniques for detection threshold adjustment for known target detection" was invented by Jose Krause Perin (Mountain View, Calif.), Kumar Bhargav Viswanatha (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rajendra Tushar Moorti (Mountain View, Calif.) and Mina Rezk (Haymarket, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of adjusting a detection threshold in a frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system includes determining a first confidence threshold with respect to a confidence metric for detecting a first target within a range of frequencie...