ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,633, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"LIDAR with co-aligned transmit and receive paths" was invented by Pierre-Yves Droz (Los Altos, Calif.), David Neil Hutchison (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ralph Hamilton Shepard (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Nathaniel Golshan (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example system includes a light source that emits light. The system also includes a waveguide that guides the emitted light from a first side of the waveguide toward a second side of the waveguide opposite the first side. The waveguide has a third side extending between the first side and the sec...