US Patent Issued to Aeva on Dec. 30 for "System and method for increasing coherence length in lidar systems" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,639, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Aeva Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and method for increasing coherence length in lidar systems" was invented by Richard L. Sebastian (Frederick, Md.), Kendall L. Belsley (Falls Church, Va.) and Stephan Schulz (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations of the invention compensate for "phase wandering" in tunable laser sources. Phase wandering may negatively impact a performance of a lidar system that employ such laser sources, typically by reducing a coherence length/range of the lidar system, an effective bandwidth of the lidar system, a sensitivity of the lid...