ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,332, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Fanless design of a rotating LIDAR system with integrated cleaning and cooling" was invented by Paul Karayacoubian (Mountain View, Calif.), Aaron Rifkin (San Francisco), Arnab Bagchi (Munich), Miguel Angel Avila Diaz (Munich), Bilge Kocer (Mountain View, Calif.), Chris J. Trowbridge (Dexter, Mich.) and Morgan M. Wagner (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for a fanless design of a rotating LIDAR system with integrated cleaning and cooling. An example system may include an enclosure including one or more electronics...