ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,944, issued on April 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Laser scanning apparatus" was invented by Fei Zhao (Wuhan, China) and Li Zeng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a laser scanning apparatus, which is a key component of a Lidar and may be used in fields such as autonomous driving and intelligent driving. The scanning apparatus includes: a scanning micromirror chip, a packaging shell, and a packaging component. The scanning micromirror chip includes a scanning micromirror and a laser, where the scanning micromirror and the laser are integrated ...