US Patent Issued to Waymo on Sept. 8 for "Lidar systems with planar multi-pixel sensing arrays" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,200, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Lidar systems with planar multi-pixel sensing arrays" was invented by Alexander Yukio Piggott (Mountain View, Calif.), Jason Watson (San Jose, Calif.), Lin Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Blaise Laurent Patrick Gassend (East Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ralph Hamilton Shepard (San Jose, 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 for pixel multiplexing and polarized beam steering. Described, among other things, is a system that includes a light source con...