US Patent Issued to Zoox on Jan. 27 for "Polarization apparatus and method for stray light reduction in a lidar" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,592, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Polarization apparatus and method for stray light reduction in a lidar" was invented by Haiming Wang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The lidar systems may reduce stray light interference. A system may comprise a laser system which, upon receiving a signal at a first time, generates an illumination light. A polarizing beam splitter (PBS) may receive the illumination light from the laser system along a first light path and the illumination light may exit from the PBS along a second light path. A quarter wave plate (QWP) may receive the illuminatio...