ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,927, issued on June 3, was assigned to SZ DJI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Ranging device and mobile platform" was invented by Chenghui Long (Shenzhen, China) and Yijun Luo (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ranging device includes a transmitter, a scanner including an optical element, and a detector. Working states of the ranging device after power-on include a normal state and a standby state. In the normal state, the transmitter transmits a light pulse sequence, the optical element is kept in a motion state to change the light pulse sequence to different directions to emit at different moments, and the det...