US Patent Issued to VELODYNE LIDAR USA on Sept. 15 for "Local oscillator tap using reflection for coherent lidar" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,677, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to VELODYNE LIDAR USA INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Local oscillator tap using reflection for coherent lidar" was invented by Tyler Banas (Alameda, Calif.), Sunil Khatana (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Liwei Hua (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lidar device includes a laser source configured to emit a transmit beam, an optical scanner that has at least one lens and is configured to transmit a first portion of the transmit beam towards a target and receive a receive beam reflected by the target, and a transmission medium configured to provide a propagation path for the transmit beam and t...