US Patent Issued to Waymo on March 11 for "Use of extended detection periods for range aliasing detection and mitigation in a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,100, issued on March 11, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Use of extended detection periods for range aliasing detection and mitigation in a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system" was invented by Mark Alexander Shand (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system may operate a LIDAR device to emit and detect light pulses in accordance with a time sequence including standard detection period(s) that establish a nominal detection range for the LIDAR device and extended detection period(s) having durations longer than those of the standard detection period(s). The system may then make a det...