US Patent Issued to Waymo on June 24 for "Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device with an off-axis receiver" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,404, issued on June 24, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device with an off-axis receiver" was invented by Pierre-Yves Droz (Los Altos, Calif.) and Simon Verghese (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a LIDAR device includes a light sources that emits light and a transmit lens that directs the emitted light to illuminate a region of an environment with a field-of-view defined by the transmit lens. The LIDAR device also includes a receive lens that focuses at least a portion of incoming light propagating from the illuminated region of the environmen...