US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on Aug. 11 for "LIDAR device including a local oscillator network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,604, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"LIDAR device including a local oscillator network" was invented by Sen Lin (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Andrew Steil Michaels (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device may include a local oscillator network and one or more LIDAR pixels coupled to the local oscillator network. At least one of the one or more LIDAR pixels may include a transmit optical antenna, a receive optical antenna, and at least one receiver. The transmit optical antenna may be configured to emit a transmit beam. The receive optical ant...