US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on July 14 for "LIDAR sensor system" (Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,151, issued on July 14, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"LIDAR sensor system" was invented by Ryan Galloway (Bozeman, Mont.) and Evan Rogers (Bozeman, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor system includes a transmitter, one or more scanning optics, an optical module, and a receiver. The transmitter is configured to output a beam having a linear polarization. The optical module is configured to provide the beam to the one or more scanning optics. The one or more scanning optics are configured to output the beam received from the optical module. The receiver is spaced fro...