ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,975, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
"Illumination diagnosis for LIDAR driver" was invented by Jean-Paul Anna Joseph Eggermont (Pellaines, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein are related to a diode driver that recirculates residual current from an operating current pulse in an inductor. Such recirculation produces a diagnostic current pulse to a diode array for measuring a voltage drop across a portion of the array. For example, after a controller charges an inductor of a diode driver to deliver operating current pulses to a portion of...