ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,785, issued on May 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"LIDAR module and methods thereof" was invented by Yuval P. Shapira (Yokneam Illit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR module includes: a light detector configured to detect light; a first (MEMS) mirror and a second MEMS mirror, wherein one of the first MEMS mirror or the second MEMS mirror is configured to direct received light towards a field of view of the LIDAR module, wherein the other one of the first MEMS mirror or the second MEMS mirror is configured to receive light from the field of view of the LIDAR module and to direct the light towards t...