ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,601, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Liturex (Guangzhou) Co. Ltd. (Guangzhou, China).
"Mirrorless solid state LiDAR" was invented by Yunpeng Song (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mirrorless light detection and ranging (LiDAR) device does not include any microelectromechanical system (MEMS) mirror. Instead, the LiDAR device uses a shifting device to shift a lens array or a laser beam emitting unit, or uses shifting devices to shift both a lens array and a laser beam emitting unit to cause relative motion between the laser beam emitting unit and the lens array. The laser beam emitting unit is a modularized compone...