ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,543, issued on June 23, was assigned to Yujin Robot Co. Ltd (Incheon, South Korea) and Miele & Cie. KG (Gutersloh, Germany).

"LIDAR sensor that measures horizontal angle using step difference and light reflectance" was invented by Seong Ju Park (Incheon, South Korea), Chang Soo Kim (Incheon, South Korea), Jae Young Lee (Incheon, South Korea), Ju Young Kim (Incheon, South Korea), Moo Woong Cheon (Incheon, South Korea), Jae Guen Ko (Incheon, South Korea) and Sang Su Cho (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present exemplary embodiments propose a LIDAR sensor including: a transmission/reception module which transmits...