ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,504, issued on June 23, was assigned to WUHAN LOTUS CARS Co. LTD (Hubei, China).

"Laser radar integrated device and vehicle provided with same" was invented by Xiange Long (Wuhan, China), Qunxiong Wei (Wuhan, China), Shichao He (Wuhan, China), Haibo Ji (Wuhan, China), Yanhong Wang (Wuhan, China), Zhenfeng Xiong (Wuhan, China), Pengwu Wang (Wuhan, China) and Yucheng Zhu (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser radar integrated device, including a cover plate (Q10, M10, N20, P60), a fixed support (Q20), a lifting structure (Q30), a pop-up structure (Q50), a laser radar (Q60), and a controller (Q70, D50). The cover plate (Q1...