US Patent Issued to Waymo on June 24 for "Multimode lidar receiver for coherent distance and velocity measurements" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,371, issued on June 24, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Multimode lidar receiver for coherent distance and velocity measurements" was invented by Pierre-Yves Droz (Los Altos, Calif.) and Pablo Hopman (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, systems and methods that enable lidar devices capable of detecting and processing multiple optical modes present in a beam reflected from a target object. Different received optical modes can be spatially separated and electronic signals can be generated that are representative of a...