ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,947, issued on April 8, was assigned to Hesai Technology Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).
"Distributed laser radar" was invented by Zhengqing Pan (Shanghai), Liangchen Ye (Shanghai), Shaoqing Xiang (Shanghai) and Yifan Li (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed LiDAR comprises: an optical transceiver assembly, multiple distributed scanning units, and a distributed optical fiber connector assembly. The optical transceiver assembly includes: a light source emitting detection light, and a light receiving unit used for receiving a detection echo. The multiple distributed scanning units are distributed on the carrier of the distributed...