US Patent Issued to Velodyne Lidar USA on Aug. 11 for "Apparatus and method for cancellation of scattered light in lidar sensors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,610, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Velodyne Lidar USA Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for cancellation of scattered light in lidar sensors" was invented by Nutan Gautam (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Liwei Hua (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for cancellation of scattered light in lidar sensors is provided. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes a lidar device with a transmitter configured to transmit optical signals and a receiver configured to receive return signals based on the optical signals. The receiver includes a first photodetector configured to receive a first return signal an...