ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,988, issued on April 22, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Lidar based communication" was invented by Salil Shree Pandit (Palo Alto, Calif.), Mark Alexander Shand (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Reed Gerard Alexander Morse (Millbrae, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing operations based on LIDAR communications are described. An example device may include one or more processors and a memory coupled to the one or more processors. The memory includes instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the device to receive data associated with a modulated optical signal emit...