US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on May 26 for "Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor system using digital down conversion" (Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,585, issued on May 26, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor system using digital down conversion" was invented by Zeb Barber (Bozeman, Mont.) and Craig Benko (Bozeman, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (lidar) sensor system may include a laser source configured to generate a beam, an electronic module, and one or more processors. The electronic module may generate, based on the beam, an optical signal that is frequency-shifted by a frequency offset relative to a local oscillator (LO) signal. The electronic module may control a transmitter to t...