ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,267, issued on May 12, was assigned to GOERTEK INC. (Shandong, China).

"Plane detection method and device based on laser sensor" was invented by Yue Ning (Shandong, China), Yifan Zhang (Shandong, China), Libing Zou (Shandong, China) and Fuqiang Zhang (Shandong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plane detection method and device based on a laser sensor are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring data of the laser sensor after starting detection; inputting the data into a detection model trained in advance, wherein the detection model is obtained by training with data corresponding to a medium type selected in advance and is capa...