US Patent Issued to Waymo on July 14 for "Methods and systems to determine a strategy for a drop process associated with a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,187, issued on July 14, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods and systems to determine a strategy for a drop process associated with a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device" was invented by Blaise Gassend (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Scott McCloskey (Mountain View, Calif.), Stephen Osborn (Redwood City, Calif.) and Nicholas Armstrong-Crews (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations may relate to determining a strategy for a drop process associated with a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device. In particular, the LIDAR device could emit light pulses and detect return light...