US Patent Issued to Aeva on June 23 for "Hybrid laser driver and methods for using electro-optical phase-locked loop and algorithmic frequency locking" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,521, issued on June 23, was assigned to Aeva Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Hybrid laser driver and methods for using electro-optical phase-locked loop and algorithmic frequency locking" was invented by Eric Bohannon (Henrietta, N.Y.), Bryce Bradford (Cupertino, Calif.) and Garret Phillips (Pittsford, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide light detection and ranging (LIDAR) systems and methods for using an electro-optical phase-locked loop (EOPLL) and algorithmic frequency locking hybrid driver to lock a beat frequency to the reference frequency. By using the hybrid driver, the present disclosu...