US Patent Issued to Aeva on Sept. 29 for "Techniques for providing combined signal to multi-mode waveguide photodetector" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,193, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Aeva Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Techniques for providing combined signal to multi-mode waveguide photodetector" was invented by Behsan Behzadi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Omer P. Kocaoglu (Fremont, Calif.), Keith Gagne (Santa Clara, Calif.), Oguzhan Avci (Cupertino, Calif.), Neal N. Oza (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Mina Rezk (Haymarket, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) apparatus including free space optics to combine a target signal and a local oscillator signal to generate a combined signal. The LIDAR system also includes a set of multi-mode (MM) waveguides an...