US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Nov. 11 for "LiDAR resonator with dynamic force equilibrium" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,043, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"LiDAR resonator with dynamic force equilibrium" was invented by Qijun Zhang (Canton, Mich.), Mark A. Stebbins (Bloomfield Township, Mich.) and Srinivasa Rao Molleti (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LiDAR resonator with dynamic force equilibrium that includes a spring fork mechanism having a first tine and a second tine with the same stiffness as the first tine, wherein the spring fork mechanism is configured to resonate at a resonant frequency, an optical module, mounted to the first tine, for transmitting a light pulse and receiving ...