US Patent Issued to AEVA on May 26 for "Techniques for alignment of target and local oscillator beams to photodiode detector" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,652, issued on May 26, was assigned to AEVA INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Techniques for alignment of target and local oscillator beams to photodiode detector" was invented by Kevin Larson Pollock (San Jose, Calif.), Adrian Cort (San Francisco), Keith Gagne (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Bradley Scot Levin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of aligning an optical lens in a LiDAR system includes emitting an optical beam by an optical source. The method includes placing the optical lens in front of a photodetector at a first predetermined position. The method further includes moving the optical lens to a plurality of ...