ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,860, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SEYOND INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Fiber-based transmitter and receiver channels of light detection and ranging systems" was invented by Yufeng Li (Milpitas, Calif.), Peng Wan (San Jose, Calif.), Randy Xi Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yimin Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Junwei Bao (Los Altos, Calif.) and Rui Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LiDAR system is provided. The LiDAR system comprises a plurality of transmitter channels and a plurality of receiver channels. The plurality of transmitter channels are configured to transmit a plurality of transmission light beams to a field-o...