US Patent Issued to Waymo on March 24 for "Configurable non-linear gain amplifier and lidar analog front end" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,003, issued on March 24, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Configurable non-linear gain amplifier and lidar analog front end" was invented by David Sobel (Los Altos, Calif.), Andrew Abo (Mountain View, Calif.) and Vadim Gutnik (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical receiver includes one or more photodetectors and an analog front end (AFE) configured to accept input signals from the one or more photodetectors. The AFE includes a non-linear gain amplifier (NLGA). The NLGA includes a piecewise linear gain stage configured to apply a piecewise linear transfer function to the input signals to f...