ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,136, issued on July 14, was assigned to Innoviz Technologies Ltd. (Rosh Ha'Ayin, Israel).

"LIDAR systems and methods for detection and classification of objects" was invented by Amir Day (Beer Yakov, Israel), Guy Zohar (Netanya, Israel), Julian Vlaiko (Kfar Saba, Israel), Nir Osiroff (Givatayim, Israel) and Ovadya Menadeva (Modiin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for classifying objects in a vehicle's surroundings includes receiving, on a pixel-by-pixel basis, a plurality of measurements associated with LIDAR detection results for a plurality of pixels of a field of view (FOV) of a LIDAR system configured to detect obj...