US Patent Issued to AURORA OPERATIONS on Sept. 23 for "LIDAR system" (Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,562, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to AURORA OPERATIONS INC. (Pittsburgh).

"LIDAR system" was invented by Edward Joseph Angus (Bozeman, Mont.) and Craig Benko (Bozeman, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor system includes a window, a laser source configured to generate a beam, one or more scanning optics configured to output the beam through the window, and a sensor. The sensor includes at least one light emitter configured to output light associated with a parameter different than a corresponding parameter of the beam, a first optic coupled to the window, the first optic configured to...