US Patent Issued to Ouster on May 12 for "Addressing redundant memory for lidar pixels" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,265, issued on May 12, was assigned to Ouster Inc. (San Francisco).

"Addressing redundant memory for lidar pixels" was invented by Tarek Al Abbas (Edinburgh, Great Britain), David Storrar (Falkirk, Great Britain), Colin Steele (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Stephen Kwiatkowski (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein provide memory redundancy. For example, the memory block for each pixel can be partitioned into multiple memory bins, and the number of memory bins can be larger than the number of time bins. Once a faulty memory cell is identified, an address associated with the memory bin that...