US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on April 15 for "LIDAR sensor system including a dual-polarization transmit and receive optical antenna" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,762, issued on April 15, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"LIDAR sensor system including a dual-polarization transmit and receive optical antenna" was invented by Sen Lin (Mountain View, Calif.) and Andrew Steil Michaels (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor system includes a dual-polarization optical antenna, a single-polarization optical antenna, a first receiver, and a second receiver. The dual-polarization optical antenna is configured to (i) emit a transmit beam with a first polarization orientation and (ii) and detect a return beam having a second polar...