US Patent Issued to Waymo on March 18 for "Devices and methods for a rotating LIDAR platform with a shared transmit/receive path" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. RE50,338, issued on March 18, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for a rotating LIDAR platform with a shared transmit/receive path" was invented by Gaetan Pennecot (San Francisco), Pierre-Yves Droz (Los Altos, Calif.), Drew Eugene Ulrich (San Francisco), Daniel Gruver (San Francisco), Zachary Morriss (San Francisco) and Anthony Levandowski (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR device may transmit light pulses originating from one or more light sources and may receive reflected light pulses that are then detected by one or more detectors. The LIDAR device may include a lens that both (...