ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,534, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to ID QUANTIQUE SA (Carouge, Switzerland).
"Lidar with photon-resolving detector" was invented by Alexander Dunning (Keynsham, Great Britain), Gianluca Boso (Carouge, Switzerland) and Felix Bussieres (Vessy, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a lidar (1000) comprising an emitter (1100) and a receiver (1200), wherein the receiver (1200) comprises a discrete amplification photon detector (1210), wherein the receiver (1200) comprises a discriminator (1220), wherein the discriminator (1220) has an input connected to an output signal of the discrete amplificatio...