US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on Jan. 20 for "LIDAR sensor system including particular optic design" (California, Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,764, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"LIDAR sensor system including particular optic design" was invented by Colin Delaney (Bozeman, Mont.), Allen Earman (Santa Clara, Calif.), James Ferrara (Oakland, Calif.) and Parth Panchal (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensor system for a vehicle includes a light source to emit a beam, a first optical component to direct the beam emitted by the light source, an optical isolator to allow the beam directed by the first optical component to pass through the optical isolator in a first direction and to pr...