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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:
Aug. 11, 2026

Filed:

Jun. 21, 2022
Applicant:

Aurora Operations, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Inventors:

Sen Lin, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Andrew Steil Michaels, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

AURORA OPERATIONS, INC., Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/481 (2006.01); G01S 7/4914 (2020.01); G01S 7/497 (2006.01); G01S 17/34 (2020.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/4817 (2013.01); G01S 7/4811 (2013.01); G01S 7/4914 (2013.01); G01S 7/497 (2013.01); G01S 17/34 (2020.01); G01S 17/931 (2020.01);
Abstract

A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device may include a local oscillator network and one or more LIDAR pixels coupled to the local oscillator network. At least one of the one or more LIDAR pixels may include a transmit optical antenna, a receive optical antenna, and at least one receiver. The transmit optical antenna may be configured to emit a transmit beam. The receive optical antenna may be configured to detect a first polarization orientation of a return beam and a second polarization orientation of the return beam. The at least one receiver can be configured to receive at least one local oscillator signal from the local oscillator network. The at least one receiver can be configured to generate a signal based on the local oscillator signal and the return beam.


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