US Patent Issued to SiLC Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Separation of light signals in a LIDAR system" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,213, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SiLC Technologies Inc. (Monrovia, Calif.).

"Separation of light signals in a LIDAR system" was invented by Prakash Koonath (La Crescenta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR system includes a LIDAR chip with a utility waveguide configured to guide an outgoing LIDAR signal and an incoming LIDAR signal. The incoming LIDAR signal includes light from the LIDAR output signal after an object located outside of the LIDAR system reflects the light from the LIDAR output signal. The LIDAR chip also includes a polarizing-beam splitter configured to receive the outgoing LIDAR signal and the inco...