US Patent Issued to Waymo on July 15 for "Dynamic sensing channel multiplexing for lidar applications" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,245, issued on July 15, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Dynamic sensing channel multiplexing for lidar applications" was invented by Chase Salsbury (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a system that includes a light source to produce a first beam, a diffraction optical element (DOE) to generate, based on the first beam configured to have a first phase information, one or more second beams. The system further includes a DOE control module to configure the DOE, for each of a plurality of times, into a respective one ...