US Patent Issued to Waymo on May 6 for "Limitation of noise on light detectors using an aperture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,502, issued on May 6, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Limitation of noise on light detectors using an aperture" was invented by Pierre-Yves Droz (Los Altos, Calif.), Blaise Gassend (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Caner Onal (Palo Alto, Calif.) and David Hutchison (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to limitation of noise on light detectors using an aperture. One example embodiment includes a system. The system includes a lens disposed relative to a scene and configured to focus light from the scene onto a focal plane. The system also includes an aperture defined within an o...