US Patent Issued to BAIDU USA on Nov. 3 for "Single photon detection based light detection and range (LiDAR) for autonomous driving vehicles" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,526, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to BAIDU USA LLC (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Single photon detection based light detection and range (LiDAR) for autonomous driving vehicles" was invented by Qiang Wang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method performed by an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) that utilizes a light detection and range (LiDAR) device that includes a light emitter and an optical sensor, the method emits, using the light emitter, an optical signal onto an object. The method receives, using the optical sensor, at least a portion of the optical signal reflected by the obj...