ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,244, issued on July 15, was assigned to Aeva Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Techniques for correcting phase impairments in a target signal" was invented by Kumar Bhargav Viswanatha (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jose Krause Perin (Mountain View, Calif.), Esha John (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Rajendra Tushar Moorti (Mountain View, Calif.) and Mina Rezk (Haymarket, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of compensation in a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system. The method includes applying a first frequency shift to a target signal to compensate for doppler shift in the target signal and performing a phase impairment correction on the targ...