US Patent Issued to Waymo on March 17 for "Synchronization of multiple rotating sensors of a vehicle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,473, issued on March 17, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Synchronization of multiple rotating sensors of a vehicle" was invented by Blaise Gassend (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Nicholas Armstrong-Crews (Mountain View, Calif.), Andreas Wendel (Mountain View, Calif.), Benjamin T. Ingram (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Clayton Kunz (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example system includes a first light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device that scans a first field-of-view defined by a first range of pointing directions associated with the first LIDAR device. The system also includes a second LIDAR devic...