ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,048, issued on March 31, was assigned to Leishen Intelligent System Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Multi-beam laser radar and self-moving vehicle" was invented by Xiaobo Hu (Shenzhen, China) and Fang Bai (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-beam laser radar includes a rotating prism, a rotating mechanism, and two transceiver modules. The rotating prism includes at least three side surfaces around a scanning rotation axis of the rotating prism; at least two of the at least three side surfaces are reflecting surfaces, and in all reflecting surfaces, included angles between at least two of the reflecting surfaces and t...