ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,780, issued on May 27, was assigned to Leishen Intelligent System Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Prism and multi-beam lidar system" was invented by Xiaobo Hu (Guangdong, China) and Fang Bai (Guangdong, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prism for a multi-beam lidar includes a top surface, a bottom surface, and at least three side surfaces positioned between the top surface and the bottom surface, at least two of the at least three side surfaces each include an emission region and a receiving region; the receiving region is positioned between the emission region and the top surface; in a direction from the top surface to the bottom ...