US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA, OPTRONTEC on March 17 for "Infrared reflector for LIDAR" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,514, issued on March 17, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and OPTRONTEC Co. LTD (Changwon-Si, South Korea).

"Infrared reflector for LIDAR" was invented by Kyoung-Chun Kweon (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Seon-Yong An (Chuncheon-si, South Korea), Wonyoung Kim (Incheon, South Korea), Minseok Oh (Changwon-si, South Korea) and Seongman Wi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an infrared reflector for a LIDAR, the infrared reflector including a substrate, and a multilayer dielectric film deposited on the substrate, in which the multilayer...