ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,753, issued on April 15, was assigned to HESAI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Optical transceiving module and laser radar" was invented by Jie Chen (Shanghai) and Shaoqing Xiang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light transceiving module and a LiDAR are disclosed. The light transceiving module includes: a light emitter module emitting a detection beam and a light receiver module receiving an echo beam of the detection beam reflected by a target object. The receiving module converts the echo beam into an electrical signal. A field of view of the light emitter module overlaps vertically with that of the light receiver module....