US Patent Issued to Aeva on May 13 for "Techniques for performing speckle reduction using polarized light" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,440, issued on May 13, was assigned to Aeva Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Techniques for performing speckle reduction using polarized light" was invented by Neal N. Oza (Palo Alto, Calif.), Omer P. Kocaoglu (Fremont, Calif.), Behsan Behzadi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Oguzhan Avci (San Francisco), Keith Gagne (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Mina Rezk (Haymarket, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system is provided. The method includes transmitting a beam of co-propagating, cross-polarized light to a target. The method includes receiving return...