ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,361, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Miris Inc. (Culver, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for LiDAR-based camera metering, exposure adjustment, and image postprocessing" was invented by Joseph Bogacz (Perth, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is Light Detection and Ranging ("LiDAR")-based camera metering, exposure adjustment, and image postprocessing. The LiDAR-based exposure adjustment may include emitting a laser from an imaging device, obtaining one or more measurements based on the laser reflecting off one or more objects in a scene and returning to the imaging device, adjusting exposure settings of the imaging device ...