US Patent Issued to Waymo on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for retroreflector mitigation using lidar" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,996, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for retroreflector mitigation using lidar" was invented by James Dunphy (San Jose, Calif.), Caner Onal (Palo Alto, Calif.) and David Schleuning (Piedmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to light detection and ranging (lidar) systems, lidar-equipped vehicles, and associated methods. An example method includes causing a firing circuit to trigger emission of an initial group of detection pulses from at least one light-emitter device of a lidar system in accordance with an initial set of one or more light-...