ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,710, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"Manufacturing process for LIDAR system with individualized semiconductor optical amplifier dies" was invented by James Ferrara (Oakland, Calif.), Pruthvi Jujjavarapu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sen Lin (Mountain View, Calif.), Andrew Steil Michaels (Los Altos, Calif.), Gevorg Martuni Nahapetian (Pleasanton, Calif.), Parth Panchal (San Jose, Calif.) and Imbert Yuyen Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a manufacturing process for a LIDAR system with individualized semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) dies...