ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,231, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for data communication via a rotary link" was invented by Youming Qin (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Paul Karplus (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing device includes a stationary portion and a rotating portion. The rotating portion is spaced apart from the stationary portion by a gap and is configured to rotate relative to the stationary portion. The rotating portion includes one or more sensors that generate data. A communication interface in the rotating portion is configured to encode the data with error correction cod...