US Patent Issued to Waymo on Sept. 16 for "Waveguide apparatus with high speed dual channel wireless contactless rotary joint" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,719, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Waymo LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Waveguide apparatus with high speed dual channel wireless contactless rotary joint" was invented by Zhe Li (San Jose, Calif.), Jamal Izadian (San Jose, Calif.), Pierre-yves Droz (Los Altos, Calif.), Min Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Samuel Lenius (Mountain View, Calif.), Paul Karplus (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kyla Purvis (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle having a communication system is disclosed. The system includes two electrical couplings, coupled by way of a rotary joint having a bearing waveguide. Each electrical coupling ...