ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,635, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to INNOVIZ TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Rosh Ha'Ayin, Israel).

"Eye safe lidar system with variable resolution multi-beam scanning" was invented by Nir Goren (Herut, Israel) and Ronen Eshel (Herzliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR system may have a laser emission unit configured to generate a plurality of laser beams. The LIDAR system may also have an optical system configured to transmit the plurality of laser beams from the laser emission unit to a common scanning unit. The common scanning unit may be configured to project the plurality of laser beams towards a first set of spaced apart ...