ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,518, issued on June 23, was assigned to AEye Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Hyper temporal lidar with switching between a baseline scan mode and a pulse burst mode" was invented by Jordan Greene (Dublin, Calif.), Joel Benscoter (Dublin, Calif.), Luis Dussan (Dublin, Calif.), Allan Steinhardt (Dublin, Calif.), Philippe Feru (Dublin, Calif.), Igor Polishchuk (Dublin, Calif.) and Alex Liang (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lidar system comprises (1) a lidar transmitter that switches from a baseline scan pattern to a pulse burst mode in response to a detection of a target in a field of view for the lidar transmitter, wherein...