ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,517, issued on June 23, was assigned to Cepton Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Rotational, reciprocating LiDAR scanning" was invented by Aman Chhabra (San Jose, Calif.), Jiawei Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Sergio Guevara (San Jose, Calif.) and Mark A. McCord (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rotational, reciprocal scanning is used in a scanning LiDAR system. A laser is mounted to a platform. A first bar and a second bar couple the platform with a pivot mount. The pivot mount is coupled with a base. The platform is arranged to rotate about the pivot mount in an arc while the laser transmits light pulses into an envir...