US Patent Issued to Waymo on Feb. 24 for "Light detectors for nearby object detection in light detection and ranging (lidar) devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,716, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Light detectors for nearby object detection in light detection and ranging (lidar) devices" was invented by Alex Bogatko (Mountain View, Calif.), Caner Onal (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Paul Karplus (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to light detectors for nearby object detection in light detection and ranging (lidar) devices. An example embodiment includes a lidar device. The lidar device includes a light emitter configured to emit a light signal at a first time. The lidar device also includes a light detector configur...