ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,560, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Stable coherent lidar system" was invented by Haiming Wang (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (lidar) system for providing coherent lidar in environments and situations where disturbances are experienced without compromising quality of the coherent lidar data. The lidar system includes a light source that directs a linearly polarized beam to a polarization beam splitter where s-polarized and p-polarized components are separated with one traveling on to reflect off a target. A second component serves as a reference an...