ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,721, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).
"SPAD lidar system with binned pixels" was invented by Shane McGuire (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various technologies described herein pertain to a SPAD lidar system that includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter is configured to transmit a transmitted electromagnetic signal into an environment nearby the SPAD lidar system, and the receiver is configured to receive a received electromagnetic signal from the environment nearby the SPAD lidar system. The receiver includes a SPAD sensor array (which includes SPAD pixels)...