ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,515, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SUTENG INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"LIDAR" was invented by Gaoshan Ye (Shenzhen, China) and Lei Deng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a LiDAR. A baffle fixing structure of the LiDAR is set between an inner housing of the LiDAR and a second housing for fixing a baffle that isolates an emitting laser from a reflected device. An angular displacement measuring device of the LiDAR includes a reflecting part and a light emitting part, wherein the reflecting part includes a plurality of reflecting teeth that extend downwardly and ar...