ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,926, issued on June 3, was assigned to Ouster Inc. (San Francisco).
"Rotating compact light ranging system" was invented by Angus Pacala (San Francisco), Mark Frichtl (San Francisco), Marvin Shu (San Francisco) and Eric Younge (Portola Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light ranging system including a shaft having a longitudinal axis; a light ranging device configured to rotate about the longitudinal axis of the shaft, the light ranging device including a light source configured to transmit light pulses to objects in a surrounding environment, and detector circuitry configured to detect reflected portions of the light pu...