US Patent Issued to Aurora Operations on July 29 for "Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system including a modular assembly" (California, Colorado, Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,631, issued on July 29, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system including a modular assembly" was invented by Ashish Bhardwaj (Mountain View, Calif.), Colin Delaney (Bozeman, Mont.), Stefan Heinemann (Bozeman, Mont.), Amir Hosseini (San Jose, Calif.), Pruthvi Jujjavarapu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Parth Panchal (Englewood, Colo.) and Zhizhong Tang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular LIDAR system comprising a seed laser configured to output a beam, a modular modulator coupled to receive the beam output the seed laser and modulate the beam to create a modulated ...