ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,361, issued on June 24, was assigned to SHENZHEN ZHUOYU TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and device for controlling lidar, lidar, and storage medium" was invented by Guofang Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Shaojie Shen (Shenzhen, China) and Lu Ma (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method for controlling a lidar device. The method includes obtaining a first irradiation amount or a first irradiance generated by the lidar device on a laser irradiated object; and controlling the lidar device based on the first irradiation amount or the first irradiance."

The patent was filed on Feb. ...