ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,499, issued on June 9, was assigned to OSRAM GmbH (Munich).

"Light detection system and methods thereof" was invented by Gerhard Maierbacher (Munich) and Bernhard Siessegger (Unterschleissheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide a light detection system including a detector configured to provide a received light signal and a processing circuit configured to provide a plurality of branched signals, each being representative of the received light signal and each being time delayed to one another and with respect to a non-delayed branched signal, wherein a delay period between the plurality of branched signals is ...