ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,062, issued on March 31, was assigned to SOS LAB Co. Ltd. (Gwangju, South Korea).

"LiDAR device" was invented by Sang Woo Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LiDAR device for determining a distance information of an object, the LiDAR device comprising: a laser emitting unit configured to emit a laser aperiodically at a controlled emitting time; a detecting unit configured to detect a laser which is emitted from the laser emitting unit and reflected by the object aperiodically during at a controlled detecting window, and to generate detecting signals; and a processor configured to control the laser emitting unit...