US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on Nov. 25 for "Determining specular reflectivity characteristics using LiDAR" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,027, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Determining specular reflectivity characteristics using LiDAR" was invented by Scott Dylewski (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system for a vehicle includes one or more emitters configured to transmit light signals to an environment in which the vehicle is located; one or more detectors configured to receive return signals corresponding to the light signals being reflected back from an object in the environment; and one or more processors configured to: determine a reflectivity characteristic of the object ...