US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on Nov. 25 for "Systems and methods for refractive beam-steering" (Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,032, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Systems and methods for refractive beam-steering" was invented by Edward Joseph Angus (Bozeman, Mont.) and Ryan Moore Galloway (Bozeman, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR apparatus can include a polygon deflector that includes a plurality of facets. The LIDAR apparatus can include a motor rotatably coupled to the polygon deflector. The motor is configured to rotate the polygon deflector about a first axis orthogonal to a first plane. The LIDAR apparatus can include an optic positioned within an interior of the polygon deflector. The optic collima...