ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,248, issued on July 15, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).
"Method and system for refractive beam-steering" was invented by Edward Joseph Angus (Bozeman, Mont.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system for a vehicle, includes a first scanner that receives a beam transmitted along an optical axis and projects the beam, a second scanner that is positioned along the optical axis, one or more motors that are coupled to the first scanner and the second scanner, and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to generate, based on one or more components of a particul...