ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,755, issued on April 15, was assigned to SEYOND INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"2D scanning high precision LiDAR using combination of rotating concave mirror and beam steering devices" was invented by Junwei Bao (Los Altos, Calif.), Yimin Li (Cupertino, Calif.) and Rui Zhang (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a system and method for coaxial LiDAR scanning. The system includes a first light source configured to provide first light pulses. The system also includes one or more beam steering apparatuses optically coupled to the first light source. Each beam steering apparatus comprises a rotatabl...