US Patent Issued to Apple on May 12 for "Lidar system with enhanced performance" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,262, issued on May 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Lidar system with enhanced performance" was invented by Vladimir Koifman (Rishon Lezion, Israel) and Tiberiu Galambos (Binyamina, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR system includes a transmitter, a receiver, and a processor. The transmitter directs a sequence of illumination pulses toward a scene. The receiver including an array of photodetectors, which receive optical radiation reflected from the scene and output respective signals in response to the received optical radiation, a shutter which modulates the signals output by the photodetectors by apply...