US Patent Issued to Velodyne Lidar USA on Oct. 27 for "Devices and techniques for oscillatory scanning in LiDAR sensors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,072, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Velodyne Lidar USA Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Devices and techniques for oscillatory scanning in LiDAR sensors" was invented by Mathew Noel Rekow (Ben Lomond, Calif.), Stephen S. Nestinger (Fremont, Calif.) and Nathan Wilkerson (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device including a plurality of illumination sources, each of the plurality of illumination sources configured to emit illumination light, an optical scanning device disposed in an optical path of the plurality of illumination sources, the optical scanning device configured to oscillate...