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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2024

Filed:

Dec. 07, 2022
Applicant:

Aeva, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Keith Gagne, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Adrian Cort, San Francisco, CA (US);

Oguzhan Avci, San Francisco, CA (US);

Kevin Pollock, San Jose, CA (US);

Pierre Hicks, San Francisco, CA (US);

Mina Rezk, Haymarket, VA (US);

Behsan Behzadi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Gautam Prabhakar, Los Altos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Aeva, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/4912 (2020.01); G01S 7/481 (2006.01); G01S 7/499 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/4917 (2013.01); G01S 7/4817 (2013.01); G01S 7/499 (2013.01);
Abstract

A LiDAR system includes an optical subsystem with an optical axis. The optical subsystem includes an optical source to emit an optical beam, a first optical lens to transmit the optical beam, an optical window to reflect a first portion of the optical beam to generate a LO signal, an optical scanner to transmit a second portion of the optical beam to a target to scan the target to generate a target return signal, where the LO signal is disposed to be decentered from the optical axis on a second optical lens in front of a photodetector (PD) to increase a percentage of an overlap of the LO signal and the target return signal on the PD.


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