ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,267, issued on March 3, was assigned to HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"LIDAR system and operation method of the same" was invented by Jun-Da Chen (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Hao-Chung Kuo (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Kuo-Fong Tseng (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR system comprises a chaotic signal generating device, a signal transmitting device and a signal processing system sequentially coupled in series. The chaotic signal generating device is configured to generate a chaotic signal and comprises a feedback device and a laser generator configured to generate a laser si...