US Patent Issued to Waymo on Nov. 3 for "Coupled lasers for coherent distance and velocity measurements" (California, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,565, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Coupled lasers for coherent distance and velocity measurements" was invented by Michael R. Matthews (Portola Valley, Calif.), Bryce Remesch (Hollis, N.H.) and John Lam (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, systems and methods that enable lidar channel multiplexing using optical locking of separate lasers while simultaneously imparting different frequency offsets to beams output by different lasers. As a result, received beams reflected from various objects, which ...