US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on March 25 for "LIDAR with switchable local oscillator signals" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,477, issued on March 25, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"LIDAR with switchable local oscillator signals" 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) sensor system includes a plurality of LIDAR pixels and a local oscillator module. The local oscillator module is coupled to the plurality of LIDAR pixels. The local oscillator module includes a first local oscillator input configured to receive a first local oscillator signal and a second local oscillator input configured to receive a second local o...