US Patent Issued to Quanergy Solutions on April 29 for "Non-uniform lidar beam configuration for object detection, tracking and classification" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,429, issued on April 29, was assigned to Quanergy Solutions Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Non-uniform lidar beam configuration for object detection, tracking and classification" was invented by Alfred Riddle (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tianyue Yu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jaswant Rai (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ross Taylor (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus has a collection of emitters on an emitter substrate with irregular distances between the collection of emitters to produce optical beams in a far field with a more even distribution than conventional optical beams in the far field produced by a conventional collection of e...