US Patent Issued to Aeva on May 12 for "Digital electro-optical phase locked loop in a LiDAR system" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,263, issued on May 12, was assigned to Aeva Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Digital electro-optical phase locked loop in a LiDAR system" was invented by Eric Bohannon (Mountain View, Calif.), Garret Phillips (Pittsford, N.Y.) and Bryce Bradford (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The FMCW LiDAR system includes an optical drive electronic circuit to receive a reference frequency signal and a beat frequency signal to generate a drive signal. The optical drive electronic circuit includes a TDC to calculate a phase difference between the reference frequency signal and the beat frequency signal and a digital ramp control to: p...