ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,113, issued on June 17, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Stray-light testing station" was invented by Chen David Lu (Campbell, Calif.), Matthew Thomas Daniel Rinehart (San Mateo, Calif.), Joshua Chia Fong Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Michael Shagam (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, for a stray-light testing station. In one aspect, the stray-light testing station includes an illumination assembly including a spatially extended light source and one or more optical elements arranged to direct a beam of light from the spatially extended light source along an optical path to a...