ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,029, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Split window and baffling" was invented by Jason Watson (San Jose, Calif.), David Duff (Portola Valley, Calif.), Justin Andrade (San Jose, Calif.), Blaise Gassend (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Alex Bogatko (Mountain View, Calif.), Alex Rivas (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Michael Brickner (Mountain View, Calif.), Yeh-Jiun Tung (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Hui Son (Hayward, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example lidar system includes a housing defining an interior space. The housing includes at least one optical window. The lidar system also includes a rotatable mirror...