US Patent Issued to Waymo on Aug. 25 for "Using cleaning protocols to monitor defects associated with light detection and ranging (Lidar) devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,013, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Using cleaning protocols to monitor defects associated with light detection and ranging (Lidar) devices" was invented by Lucas Peeters (Palo Alto, Calif.), Chase Salsbury (San Mateo, Calif.), Kanika Sachdev (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Luke Wachter (San Francisco), Tadeusz Pudlik (Mountain View, Calif.), Caner Onal (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Logan Su (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to using cleaning protocols to monitor defects associated with light detection and ranging (lidar) devices. An example embodiment includes a metho...