US Patent Issued to KOITO MANUFACTURING on March 11 for "LiDAR sensor unit and vehicle security system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,074, issued on March 11, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"LiDAR sensor unit and vehicle security system" was invented by Yuichi Watano (Shizuoka, Japan), Shunsuke Okamura (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yoshiaki Fushimi (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a LiDAR sensor unit in which even when a lens element is provided, measurement data is less likely to be affected by the lens element. A LiDAR sensor unit has: a LiDAR sensor; a lens element that is provided on an optical path of light emitted from the LiDAR sensor; and a processing unit that outputs measurement data which has been measured by th...