US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on June 17 for "Coherent LIDAR system including optical antenna array" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,387, issued on June 17, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Coherent LIDAR system including optical antenna array" 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) transceiver includes optical antenna arrays and an optical switch. Some of the optical antenna arrays include a number of optical antennas and an optical splitter coupled to the optical antennas. The optical splitter may include a number of passive optical splitters. The optical splitter provides a portion of an input signal to the optical ante...