ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,013, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Spatial light modulator retroreflector mitigation" was invented by James Dunphy (San Jose, Calif.), David Schleuning (Piedmont, Calif.) and Ralph Shepard (Belmont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to multi-channel optical transmitter modules, lidar systems, and methods that involve micromirror devices. An example optical transmitter module includes at least one light-emitter device and a plurality of micromirror devices optically-coupled to the at least one light-emitter device. The at least one light-emitter device is config...