ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,808, issued on July 14, was assigned to LIDWAVE LTD. (Jerusalem).

"Method and apparatus for mapping and ranging based on coherent-time comparison" was invented by Yehuda Hai Vidal (Jerusalem) and Uri Weiss (Mevo Beitar, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system for range detection including at least one beam source arrangement configured to provide illumination of certain coherence length, an optical arrangement, and a detection arrangement including at least one detector unit."

The patent was filed on March 25, 2021, under Application No. 17/995,182.

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