ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,227, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Tanway Technology (Huzhou) Co. Ltd. (Huzhou, China).

"Scanning method and apparatus based on image-laser fusion lidar system" was invented by Hongpeng Li (Beijing), Ruitong Zheng (Beijing), Shiwei Wang (Beijing) and Luofeng Shen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scanning method and apparatus based on an image-laser fusion lidar system is provided. The method includes: acquiring exposure images and point cloud data; merging N frames of exposure images into a spliced image, wherein in the N frames of exposure images, an initial exposure timing of each frame of exposure image is different,...