US Patent Issued to Waymo on July 8 for "Variable beam spacing, timing, and power for vehicle sensors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,895, issued on July 8, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Variable beam spacing, timing, and power for vehicle sensors" was invented by Benjamin Ingram (Santa Clara, Calif.), Pierre-Yves Droz (Los Altos, Calif.), Luke Wachter (San Francisco), Scott McCloskey (Mountain View, Calif.), Blaise Gassend (East Palo Alto, Calif.) and Gaetan Pennecot (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and methods that facilitate light detection and ranging operations. An example transmit block includes at least one substrate with a plurality of angled facets. The plurality of angled facets p...