US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on Nov. 3 for "Method and system for automatic real-time adaptive scanning with optical ranging systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,567, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Method and system for automatic real-time adaptive scanning with optical ranging systems" was invented by Stephen Crouch (Palo Alto, Calif.), Randy R. Reibel (Palo Alto, Calif.), James Curry (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Trenton Berg (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for automatic adaptive scanning with a laser scanner include obtaining range measurements at a coarse angular resolution and forming a horizontally sorted range gate subset and a characteristic range. A fine angular resolution is determined automatically based on the characte...