US Patent Issued to THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, SHENZHEN, SHENZHEN INSTITUTE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ROBOTICS FOR SOCIETY on Jan. 28 for "Optical phased array lidar" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,120, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, SHENZHEN (Guangdong, China) and SHENZHEN INSTITUTE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ROBOTICS FOR SOCIETY (Guangdong, China).

"Optical phased array lidar" was invented by Caiming Sun (Guangdong, China), Hongjie Wang (Guangdong, China) and Aidong Zhang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical phased array lidar includes: a laser, for emitting a laser signal; an optical beam splitter, for splitting a laser signal into multiple sub-signals, and distributing them to corresponding optical paths; a phase controller connected to the optical beam spl...