ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,468, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Lower power linearization of lidar signals" was invented by Sabareeshkumar Ravikumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Pieter Kapsenberg (Santa Clara, Calif.), Srikanth Muroor (Mountain View, Calif.), David Sobel (Los Altos, Calif.) and Michael Dierickx (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments relate to a lower power linearization of lidar signals. An example embodiment includes a method that includes receiving a sample value output by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) in a processing unit of a lidar system. The ADC may be configured to di...