ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,020, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Optical redirector device" was invented by Blaise Gassend (East Palo Alto, Calif.), David Duff (Portola Valley, Calif.), Pierre-Yves Droz (Los Altos, Calif.), Paul Karplus (Redwood City, Calif.), Jason Watson (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Brickner (Mountain View, Calif.) and Alex Rivas (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to devices, lidar systems, and vehicles that include optical redirectors. An example lidar system includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter includes at least one light-emitter device con...