ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,063, issued on March 31, was assigned to Microvision Inc. (Redmond, Wash.).

"Reading device and lidar measuring device" was invented by Ralf Beuschel (Wangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a reading device for determining a signal propagation time of a light pulse between a lidar transmission unit and a lidar receiving unit of a lidar measuring device in a focal plane array arrangement, comprising: an input interface for receiving detections from multiple sensor elements of the lidar receiving unit, said sensor elements being arranged in a macrocell paired with a transmission element of the ...