ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,070, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Shenzhen Guangjian Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Lidar light source and system" was invented by Ruibin Huang (Shenzhen, China), Shizhi Lyu (Shenzhen, China), Li Zhu (Shenzhen, China), Fanglu Lyu (Shenzhen, China) and Bo Wang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lidar light source includes an array of edge-emitting lasers (EELs) and a cylindrical lens. Each of the EELs includes an active region. Light emitting ports of the plurality of active regions are disposed adjacent to each other. The plurality of active regions share a cathode and include separate anodes, or share a...