ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,274, issued on March 3, was assigned to Ouster Inc. (San Francisco).
"Guided flash LiDAR" was invented by Filip Taneski (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Tarek Al Abbas (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Robert Henderson (Edinburgh, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus that can save power and provide improved lidar images. An example can save power by limiting received photon accumulation to a range of bins corresponding to a range of distances where a position of an object has been predetermined. By not accumulating or binning photon data over an entire range, the amount of data stored each laser cycle ...