US Patent Issued to Waymo on Oct. 7 for "Light steering device with a plurality of beam-steering optics" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,536, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Light steering device with a plurality of beam-steering optics" was invented by Drew Ulrich (San Francisco), Pierre-yves Droz (Mountain View, Calif.) and Samuel Lenius (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device scans through a scanning zone while emitting light pulses and receives reflected signals corresponding to the light pulses. The LIDAR device scans the emitted light pulses through the scanning zone by reflecting the light pulses from an array of oscillating mirrors. The mirrors are operated by a set of ...