US Patent Issued to National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University on July 15 for "LiDAR and method of fast photon-count integration for LiDAR" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,220, issued on July 15, was assigned to National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"LiDAR and method of fast photon-count integration for LiDAR" was invented by Tzu-Hsien Sang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia-Ming Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yung-Chien Liu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ningkai Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ting-Yuan Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LiDAR and a method of a fast photon-count integration for a LiDAR are disclosed. The proposed method, wherein the LiDAR includes a laser, includes: providing a target and the LiDAR; causing the laser to fire a laser pulse towards the target according to a rando...