ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,543, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Systems and methods for variable-resolution refinement of Geiger mode lidar" was invented by Yahia Tachwali (Princeton, N.J.), Jiye Lee (Pittsburgh) and Michael Schoenberg (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer program products for operating a lidar system (LS). The methods comprise: receiving result values (RVs) from photodetectors (the RVs based on operations performed by each photodetector to facilitate measurements associated with a light signal reflected off an object external to LS); combining ...