US Patent Issued to Waymo on July 8 for "Light detection and ranging (lidar) device having a light-guide manifold" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,900, issued on July 8, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Light detection and ranging (lidar) device having a light-guide manifold" was invented by Pierre-Yves Droz (Los Altos, Calif.), Ralph H. Shepard (Menlo Park, Calif.), Augusto Tazzoli (San Jose, Calif.), David Hutchison (Santa Clara, Calif.), David Schleuning (Piedmont, Calif.), Nathaniel Golshan (San Francisco), Nathaniel Quillin (Palo Alto, Calif.), Andrew Abo (Mountain View, Calif.), Caner Onal (Palo Alto, Calif.), Michael Tom (Milpitas, Calif.), Robert Lockwood (San Carlos, Calif.), Kelvin Kwong (San Jose, Calif.), Daiwei Li (San Jose, Calif.), Drew Ulrich (San Francisco), Simon Ellgas (San Jose, Calif.),...