ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,356, issued on June 17, was assigned to Aeluma Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).
"LIDAR sensor for vehicle apparatus" was invented by Jonathan Klamkin (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for realizing compound semiconductor (CS) optoelectronic devices on silicon (Si) substrates for vehicle applications are disclosed. The integration platform is based on heteroepitaxy of CS materials and device structures on Si by direct heteroepitaxy on planar Si substrates or by selective area heteroepitaxy on dielectric patterned Si substrates. Following deposition of the CS device structures, device fabrication steps can be carri...