US Patent Issued to AURORA OPEATIONS on June 10 for "Switchable coherent pixel array for frequency modulated continuous wave light detection and ranging" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,522, issued on June 10, was assigned to AURORA OPEATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Switchable coherent pixel array for frequency modulated continuous wave light detection and ranging" was invented by Amir Hosseini (San Jose, Calif.), Sen Lin (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Andrew Steil Michaels (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR transceiver includes a source input, coherent cells, and an optical switch. The optical switch is configured to switchably couple the source input to the coherent cells. At least one of the coherent cells includes an input port, an optical antenna, and a splitter. The input port is coupled to the...