ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,619, issued on July 29, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Polarization sensitive LiDAR system" was invented by Gary W. Kamerman (Plainsboro, N.J.), Christopher John Trowbridge (Dexter, Mich.) and Viorel C. Negoita (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (LiDAR) system including a plurality of light emitters, wherein the plurality of light emitters are configured to emit a plurality of beams, and the plurality of light emitters are configured to form a beam polarization pattern of the plurality of beams to be emitted toward an object external to the LiDAR system, a receiv...