ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,953, issued on May 5, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Lidar control device, lidar control method, and lidar device" was invented by Masaharu Imaki (Tokyo), Takayuki Nakano (Tokyo) and Masahiro Kawai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lidar control device controls a lidar device including a background light cut filter that allows transmission of reflected laser light that is laser emission light reflected by an object and suppresses transmission of background light incident on the lidar device, the lidar control device including: a filter temperature acquiring unit to acquire a filter temperature of the backgrou...