US Patent Issued to Aeva on July 22 for "Techniques for increasing efficiency of a waveguide of a LIDAR system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,636, issued on July 22, was assigned to Aeva Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Techniques for increasing efficiency of a waveguide of a LIDAR system" was invented by Mazin Alalusi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Pradeep Srinivasan (Fremont, Calif.) and Kevin Masuda (Alhambra, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging apparatus (LIDAR) includes at least one waveguide including a first cladding layer having a first refractive index and a second cladding layer having multiple second refractive indexes to expand an optical mode of an optical beam propagating within the waveguide. The second refractive indexes include a gradie...