ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,398, issued on June 24, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Lidar apparatus" was invented by Kohei Toyama (Kariya, Japan) and Shunpei Suzuki (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A partition plate includes a material that blocks transmission of light and partitions an internal space of an enclosure into a light-projecting space where a light projector is disposed and a light-receiving space where a light receiver is disposed. A light shielding plate is configured by a material that blocks transmission of light, is provided between a light-projecting deflector, which is a portion of a deflecting mirror used for light...