US Patent Issued to Waymo on Oct. 27 for "Optimization of beam modulation in coherent sensing devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,079, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Optimization of beam modulation in coherent sensing devices" was invented by Alexander Yukio Piggott (Mountain View, Calif.), Chung Lam (Mountain View, Calif.) and Yunshan Jiang (Mountain View, 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 of optical sensing that use optimization techniques to improve quality of optical modulation of sensing beams in optical sensing devices. Described, among other things, is a system that uses a control signal to impart modulation ...