ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,197, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Baraja Pty Ltd (New South Wales, Australia).

"Adaptive spatial estimation system" was invented by Cibby Pulikkaseril (New South Wales, Australia), Anton Lohr (New South Wales, Australia) and Stanley Lam (New South Wales, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for directing light into an environment are described, for example methods and apparatus for use in a light detection and ranging system that scans light across an environment for spatial estimation. The method and system involves scanning at one angular resolution and temporal resolution in a first scan and scannin...