US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on Jan. 28 for "Solid-state light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system with real-time self-calibration" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,126, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Solid-state light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system with real-time self-calibration" was invented by Sen Lin (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging system. The system includes a solid-state optical antenna array, a phase monitor array, a phase controller, a plurality of phase shifters and a global phase shifter. The phase monitor array is configured to output a first mixed signal associated with one of the optical antenna subarrays, and a second mixed signal associated with two of the optical antenna subarrays. ...