ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,414, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Optical assembly for scanning lidar system" was invented by Li Wang (Shenzhen, China), Huai Huang (Shenzhen, China), Xiao Huang (Shenzhen, China), Zezheng Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Yalin Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LiDAR system includes a light source to emit pulsed laser light beams, a scanning optical assembly to direct the pulsed laser light beams to scan an environment for detecting one or more objects therein, and a receiver to receive, via the scanning optical assembly, return light beams reflected by the one or mor...