US Patent Issued to Aurora Operations on March 3 for "Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor system including integrated chip" (California, Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,306, issued on March 3, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc (Pittsburgh).

"Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor system including integrated chip" was invented by James Ferrara (Oakland, Calif.), Stefan Heinemann (Bozeman, Mont.), Pruthvi Jujjavarapu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sen Lin (Mountain View, Calif.) and Zhizhong Tang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Manufacturing an integrated chip packaging for a LIDAR sensor mounted to a vehicle includes obtaining a metallic housing including a cutout on a side of the metallic housing, obtaining a ceramic radio frequency (RF) circuit board including a flange, coupling the...