US Patent Issued to Waymo on March 17 for "Infrared light module uniformity rotational test module" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,085, issued on March 17, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Infrared light module uniformity rotational test module" was invented by Choon Ping Chng (Los Altos, Calif.), Cheng-Han Wu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Lucian Ion (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Giulia Guidi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments described herein involve a system for testing a light-emitting module. The light-emitting module may include a mounting platform configured to hold a light-emitting module for a camera. The mounting platform may also be configured to rotate. The system may further include a housing holding a pl...