ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,632, issued on March 18, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).
"Systems and methods for pulsed-wave LIDAR" was invented by Zeb Barber (Mountain View, Calif.), Randy Reibel (Mountain View, Calif.), Devlin Baker (Mountain View, Calif.) and Emil Kadlec (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system includes a laser source configured to provide an optical signal at a first signal power, an amplifier having a plurality of gain levels, at which the amplifier is configured to amplify the optical signal, and one or more processors. The one or more pr...