US Patent Issued to Aeva on Dec. 2 for "Techniques for identifying obstructions in a LIDAR system" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,364, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Aeva Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Techniques for identifying obstructions in a LIDAR system" was invented by Jose Krause Perin (Mountain View, Calif.), Kumar Bhargav Viswanatha (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rajendra Tushar Moorti (Mountain View, Calif.) and Mina Rezk (Haymarket, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system, includes a memory, and a processor, operatively coupled to the memory, to identify an obstruction of the LIDAR system based on a comparison of a frequency of an energy peak generated from a return signal to a threshold frequency and mitigate the o...