ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,669, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"LIDAR transmitter and receiver optics" was invented by Blaise Gassend (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Ralph Shepard (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Pierre-Yves Droz (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to optical systems and related methods of their use. An example optical system includes a transmitter. The transmitter includes a light emitter device configured to emit emission light. The light emitter device defines a reference plane. The transmitter also includes a fast axis collimation (FAC) lens optically coupled to the ligh...