ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,131, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to HESAI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Lidar and ranging method" was invented by Xuezhou Zhu (Shanghai), Kaimin Yan (Shanghai), Haihua Liu (Shanghai) and Shaoqing Xiang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lidar is provided, including: an emitting unit, including a plurality of laser emitters and driving circuits, where the driving circuits are configured to drive the laser emitters to emit detection laser beams for detecting a target object, the emitting unit further includes a compensation unit for a blind region, and the compensation unit for a blind region is configured to cause a tar...