ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,629, issued on July 29, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Multi-chip daisychain for output aggregation" was invented by Pieter Kapsenberg (Santa Clara, Calif.), Pierre-Yves Droz (Los Altos, Calif.) and Sabareeshkumar Ravikumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical receiver may include a plurality of photodetectors, a common processed data pipeline, and a plurality of processors. Outputs of the plurality of processors are communicatively coupled to the common processed data pipeline. Each processor is configured to accept input signals from a respective photodetector of the plurality of photode...