ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,432, issued on April 29, was assigned to VANJEE TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Phased array LiDAR transmitting chip of mixed materials, manufacturing method thereof, and lidar device" was invented by Pengfei Wang (Beijing), Yang Xu (Beijing), Yejin Zhang (Beijing), Hongyan Yu (Beijing), Jiaoqing Pan (Beijing), Qingfei Wang (Beijing) and Linyan Tian (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a phased array LiDAR transmitting chip of mixed materials, a manufacturing method thereof, and a LiDAR device. The phased array LiDAR transmitting chip of mixed materials includes: a first material structure layer and ...