US Patent Issued to Aurora Operations on June 17 for "Chip packaging in light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor system" (Montana, California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,380, issued on June 17, was assigned to Aurora Operations Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Chip packaging in light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor system" was invented by Colin Delaney (Bozeman, Mont.), James Ferrara (Oakland, Calif.), Stefan Heinemann (Bozeman, Mont.), Amir Hosseini (San Jose, Calif.), Pruthvi Jujjavarapu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yongxuan Liang (Fremont, Calif.), Parth Panchal (Englewood, Colo.) and Zhizhong Tang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated chip packaging for a LIDAR sensor mounted to a vehicle includes a laser assembly configured to output a beam, an optical amplifier array chip configured t...