US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on Nov. 4 for "Method and system for doppler detection and doppler correction of optical chirped range detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,239, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Method and system for doppler detection and doppler correction of optical chirped range detection" was invented by Stephen C. Crouch (Mountain View, Calif.), Trenton Berg (Mountain View, Calif.), Randy R. Reibel (Mountain View, Calif.) and James Curry (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for Doppler correction of chirped optical range detection include obtaining a first set of ranges based on corresponding frequency differences between a return optical signal and a first chirped transmitted optical signal with an up chirp that incr...