US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on Oct. 14 for "LIDAR system and manufacturing method having semiconductor-based optical components coupled together with solder" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,897, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"LIDAR system and manufacturing method having semiconductor-based optical components coupled together with solder" was invented by Lei Wang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a semiconductor-based light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system for a vehicle, includes: coupling a first optical component with solder disposed on a first portion of the first optical component to a second optical component in a first alignment operation, where the solder disposed on the first portion of the first optical component is not in con...