US Patent Issued to Aeva on Sept. 23 for "Techniques for FMCW LiDAR system descan compensation" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,531, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Aeva Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Techniques for FMCW LiDAR system descan compensation" was invented by Keith Gagne (Santa Clara, Calif.), Adrian Cort (San Francisco), Oguzhan Avci (San Francisco), Kevin Pollock (San Jose, Calif.), Pierre Hicks (San Francisco), Mina Rezk (Haymarket, Va.), Behsan Behzadi (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Gautam Prabhakar (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LiDAR system includes an optical source to emit an optical beam toward a target, a partially reflective surface to generate a local oscillator (LO) signal from the optical beam, and an optical lens d...