ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,409, issued on April 29, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).
"Systems and methods for IQ detection" was invented by Zeb Barber (Bozeman, Mont.), Stephen Crouch (Bozeman, Mont.) and Emil Kadlec (Bozeman, Mont.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for combining multiple functions of a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system includes receiving a second optical beam generated by the laser source or a second laser source, wherein the second optical beam is associated with a second local oscillator (LO); splitting the second optical beam into a third split optical beam and a fourth split optical beam; trans...