US Patent Issued to VELODYNE LIDAR USA on May 20 for "Systems and methods for chirp linearization using partial field-of-view (FOV) as a reference reflector" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,351, issued on May 20, was assigned to VELODYNE LIDAR USA INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for chirp linearization using partial field-of-view (FOV) as a reference reflector" was invented by Sunil Khatana (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Tyler Banas (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for linearizing frequency chirp in a frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) coherent LiDAR system. Exemplary methods can include generating a continuous wave laser signal having a frequency characteristic, in which the frequency characteristic can include a frequency chirp over a frequency ban...