US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on July 22 for "LIDAR sensor system including dual-polarization in-coupling gratings" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,663, issued on July 22, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"LIDAR sensor system including dual-polarization in-coupling gratings" was invented by Sen Lin (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Andrew Steil Michaels (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device that may be included in an autonomous vehicle includes a transmit optical coupler, a first receive optical coupler, and a second receive optical coupler. The transmit optical coupler is positioned between the first and second receive optical couplers to enable the receive optical couplers to receive a return beam that may ...