ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,421, issued on July 28, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Systems and methods for convolutional high resolution lidar imaging" was invented by Yahia Tachwali (Princeton, N.J.) 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. The methods comprise: performing operations by each of a plurality of photodetectors to facilitate measurements of an intensity of a light signal reflected off an object external to the lidar system; receiving, by a processor, result values from the photodetectors that indicate...