ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,814, issued on April 14, was assigned to OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).
"Optoelectronic device and lidar system" was invented by Hubert Halbritter (Dietfurt-Toeging, Germany), Ralph Wirth (Lappersdorf, Germany) and Peter Brick (Regensburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optoelectronic device, in particular for the detection of obstacles and/or for distance measurement, may include a transmitting device for emitting laser beams. The transmitting device may include an array of pixels where each pixel of the pixel array comprises at least one laser, such as an optoelectronic laser, e.g. a VCSEL. The pi...