US Patent Issued to Aeva on Dec. 30 for "Techniques for range and velocity measurements in a LIDAR system" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,640, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Aeva Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Techniques for range and velocity measurements in a LIDAR system" was invented by Oguzhan Avci (San Francisco), Omer P. Kocaoglu (Fremont, Calif.), Neal N. Oza (Palo Alto, Calif.), Keith Gagne (Santa Clara, Calif.), Behsan Behzadi (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Mina Rezk (Haymarket, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system includes optical sources to emit a continuous-wave (CW) optical beam and a frequency-modulated CW (FMCW) optical beam, an optical component to split a target return signal into a CW return signal and a FMCW r...