US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on May 5 for "LIDAR system including multifaceted deflector" (Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,949, issued on May 5, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"LIDAR system including multifaceted deflector" was invented by Ryan Galloway (Bozeman, Mont.), Edward Angus (Bozeman, Mont.) and Zeb Barber (Bozeman, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for scanning of coherent LIDAR. The system includes a motor, a laser source configured to generate an optical beam, and a deflector. A first facet of the plurality of facets has a facet normal direction. The deflector is coupled to the motor and is configured to rotate about a rotation axis to deflect the optical beam from the laser source. The laser source ...