ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,950, issued on May 5, was assigned to GUILIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Guilin, China).

"Photomultiplier tube protection system with dual optical receiving channels for bathymetry LiDAR" was invented by Guoqing Zhou (Guilin, China) and Zhong'ao Wang (Guilin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photomultiplier tube protection system with dual optical receiving channels for bathymetry LiDAR is designed, through a photomultiplier tube gating technology, based on dual optical receiving channels, main control module with STM32 single chip microcomputer and, high-speed AD sampling module. The system includes: calculating laser echo receivi...