ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,097, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Lidar apparatus having wide-viewing angle" was invented by Yongchul Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jungwoo Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Tatsuhiro Otsuka (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light detection and ranging (LiDAR) apparatus with a wide viewing angle includes: a first rotatable mirror array including a first plurality of inclined mirrors arranged in a circumferential direction; a plurality of light sources configured to emit light toward the first rotatable mirror array; a second rotatable mirror array incl...