US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on Jan. 28 for "Autonomous vehicle including LIDAR sensor system having improved photonics interface" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,121, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Autonomous vehicle including LIDAR sensor system having improved photonics interface" was invented by Sen Lin (Mountain View, Calif.) and Lei Wang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system for a vehicle can include: a light source configured to output a transmit beam at a first orientation; a reflective surface configured to redirect the transmit beam from the first orientation to a second orientation; and a lens interface configured to receive the transmit beam at the first orientation and focus the transm...