ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,515, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to HL KLEMOVE CORP. (Incheon, South Korea).

"LiDAR apparatus" was invented by HakGu Han (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) apparatus capable of further reducing scattered light generated in a process of transmitting or receiving light waves. The LiDAR apparatus includes a transmitter and a receiver, wherein at least one of the transmitter and the receiver includes an absorbing coating layer that is formed of an absorbent material, which absorbs energy of laser light, and with which an interface of a lens, on which the laser lig...