US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on Jan. 28 for "LIDAR system based on multi-channel laser module for simultaneous beam scanning of target environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,099, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"LIDAR system based on multi-channel laser module for simultaneous beam scanning of target environment" was invented by Phillip Sandborn (Mountain View, Calif.), Sen Lin (Mountain View, Calif.) and James Ferrara (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A FMCW LIDAR system for simultaneous beam scanning of the target environment. The system can include a photonics assembly couplable to a beam steering module. The photonics assembly is configured to receive a frequency modulated laser beam and can include an optical splitter and a coherent receive...