ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,208, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to BEIJING VOYAGER TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Diffractive light distribution for photosensor array-based lidar receiving system" was invented by Youmin Wang (Berkeley, Calif.) and Yue Lu (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure provide an optical sensing system containing a diffractive optical element, and an optical sensing method using the same. For example, the optical sensing system includes a laser emitter configured to emit an optical signal. The optical sensing system further includes a steering device configured to direct the emitted optical signal...