ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,324, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to BEIJING VOYAGER TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).
"Transmitter having a light modulator for light detection and ranging (LiDAR)" was invented by Youmin Wang (Berkeley, Calif.), Yonghong Guo (Mountain View, Calif.), Chao Wang (Milpitas, Calif.), Yue Lu (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Lingkai Kong (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmitter for light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is provided. The transmitter includes a plurality of laser sources and a light modulator. Each of the laser sources includes interleaved emitting regions and gaps and is configured to provide a native laser beam i...