US Patent Issued to Motional on Sept. 8 for "False signal reducing lidar window" (Moroccan, Panamanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,191, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Motional AD LLC (Boston).

"False signal reducing lidar window" was invented by Yong Zhou (New Kensington, Panama) and Geng Fu (Belmont, Morocco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods and systems are disclosed to reduce the false alarm in a lidars having a lidar window surrounding the lidar system, by increasing the propagation loss for a portion of incident light that propagates within the thickness of the lidar window and may be guided toward the detection system of the lidar via an indirect path. Alternatively, or in addition, the shape of the lidar window may be tailored to direct th...