US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on Sept. 29 for "Drive control for a scanner of a LIDAR system" (Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,194, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Drive control for a scanner of a LIDAR system" was invented by Edward Angus (Bozeman, Mont.) and Christoffer James Renner (Bozeman, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system includes a light source to emit light and a scanner. The scanner includes a fixed first portion including one or more coils, a rotatable second portion including one or more magnets and flexure components which oscillate in response to the one or more coils being driven, a scan element to rotate via rotation of the rotatable second portion and t...