US Patent Issued to Waymo on Nov. 18 for "Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device range aliasing resilience by multiple hypotheses" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,473, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device range aliasing resilience by multiple hypotheses" 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 light pulses in accordance with a time sequence including a time-varying dither. The system may then determine that the LIDAR detected return light pulses during corresponding detection periods for each of two or more emitted light pulses. Responsively, the system may determine that the detected return light pulses have (i) detec...