US Patent Issued to Aeva on July 14 for "Techniques for combining optical beams into shared spatial mode" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,154, issued on July 14, was assigned to Aeva Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Techniques for combining optical beams into shared spatial mode" was invented by 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 beam combining component to combine a first optical beam including a first polarization and a second optical beam including a second polarization into a single spatial mode optical beam, and a first beam splitting component to split the single spatial mode optical beam into a plurality of single spatial mode optical beams."

The patent was filed on May 13, 2024, under ...