ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,868, issued on July 8, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Systems and methods of LIDAR sensor systems having integrated semiconductor devices" was invented by James Ferrara (Oakland, Calif.), Pruthvi Jujjavarapu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yongxuan Edward Liang (Fremont, Calif.), Sen Lin (Mountain View, Calif.) and Zhizhong Tang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor system includes a circuit module. The circuit module includes a silicon substrate having a first thermal feature. The circuit module includes a III-V semiconductor substrate coupled to the silicon substra...