ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,095, issued on April 22, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).
"Adjustable beam pattern for LIDAR sensor" was invented by Scott Boehmke (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR sensor for an autonomous vehicle (AV) can include one or more lasers outputting one or more laser beams, one or more non-mechanical optical components to (i) receive the one or more laser beams, (ii) configure a field of view of the LIDAR sensor, and (iii) output modulated frequencies from the one or more laser beams, and one or more photodetectors to detect return signals based on the outputted modulated frequencies from the one or mor...