US Patent Issued to Waymo on July 29 for "Two-step return calibration for lidar cross-talk mitigation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,627, issued on July 29, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Two-step return calibration for lidar cross-talk mitigation" was invented by Pieter Kapsenberg (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Georges Goetz (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical receiver includes a plurality of photodetectors, a shared memory, and a pulse calibration processing unit communicatively coupled to the shared memory. The optical receiver also includes a hardware accelerator module configured to accept input waveforms from the plurality of photodetectors and compare an amplitude of the respective input waveforms with a predeter...