ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,587, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Aeva Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Techniques for equalizing powers of multiple local oscillator beams using optical attenuators" was invented by Shijun Xiao (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide a LIDAR system including an optical source to transmit at least a first beam and a second beam toward a target, respectively at a first original power level and a second original power level. The LIDAR system further includes an optical attenuator adapted to receive each of the first and the second beams disposed between the optical source and ...