US Patent Issued to Cepton Technologies on May 27 for "Half and quarter lissajous scan patterns for LiDAR" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,784, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cepton Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Half and quarter lissajous scan patterns for LiDAR" was invented by Dongyi Liao (Mountain View, Calif.), Jun Pei (Saratoga, Calif.) and Mark A. McCord (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LiDAR system includes a fixed frame, a first platform, an electro-optic assembly including one or more laser sources and one or more detectors mounted on the first platform; a flexure assembly flexibly coupling the first platform to the fixed frame; a drive mechanism configured to translate the first platform with respect to the fixed frame in two dim...