US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on July 15 for "Systems and methods for autonomous vehicle control using depolarization ratio of return signal" (Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,535, issued on July 15, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Systems and methods for autonomous vehicle control using depolarization ratio of return signal" was invented by Stephen Crouch (Bozeman, Mont.), Zeb Barber (Bozeman, Mont.), Emil Kadlec (Bozeman, Mont.), Ryan Galloway (Bozeman, Mont.) and Sean Spillane (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 laser source configured to output a beam, a transmitter, a receiver, one or more optics and a processor. The transmitter is configured to transmit a transmit signal that is generated based on ...