ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,730, issued on May 19, was assigned to LightIC Technologies HK Ltd. (Hong Kong).

"Light detection and ranging system and mobile device" was invented by Zhi Li (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tianbo Sun (Santa Clara, Calif.), Guomin Jiang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ziyun Kong (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jie Sun (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging system and a mobile device are provided. The system includes laser light sources, an optical switch component and an optical chip. Wavelengths of the optical signals emitted by the laser light sources are different. The optical switch component includes optical s...