US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on Oct. 21 for "Beam displacement apparatus for light detection and ranging" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,517, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Beam displacement apparatus for light detection and ranging" was invented by Andrew Steil Michaels (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Sen Lin (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system includes a transmitter, a receiving pixel, a rotating mirror, and a beam displacement apparatus. The transmitter is configured to emit a transmit beam. The receiving pixel is configured to receive a returning beam. The rotating mirror is configured to direct the transmit beam to a target and direct the returning beam to the recei...