ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,521, issued on June 10, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA (Chengdu, China).

"Lidar system based on silicon-based integrated magneto-optical circulator" was invented by Lei Bi (Chengdu, China), Wei Yan (Chengdu, China), Shuyuan Liu (Chengdu, China), Jun Qin (Chengdu, China), Yan Zhang (Chengdu, China) and Longjiang Deng (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lidar system, including: a laser, an optical detector, a laser antenna, and a silicon-based integrated magneto-optical circulator. The silicon-based integrated magneto-optical circulator includes a silicon-based integrated Mach-Zehn...