US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 16 for "LiDAR array with vertically-coupled transceivers" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,462, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"LiDAR array with vertically-coupled transceivers" was invented by Nurul Taimur Islam (Cupertino, Calif.), Malcolm J. Northcott (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Christopher M. Rogers (Palo Alto, Calif.), Helen H. Liang (Los Gatos, Calif.), Ehsan Shah-Hosseini (San Francisco), Jack E. Graves (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ariel Lipson (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Daniel Kravitz (Petah Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical sensing device includes a planar substrate and an array of optical transceivers disposed on the planar substrate. Each optical transceiver includes a pho...