US Patent Issued to AUDI on March 24 for "Detection device with at least one sensor device, an analysis device, a light source, and a carrier medium" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,020, issued on March 24, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Detection device with at least one sensor device, an analysis device, a light source, and a carrier medium" was invented by Markus Klug (Ingolstadt, Germany), Tobias Moll (Ingolstadt, Germany) and Johannes Scheuchenpflug (Baar-Ebenhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carrier medium is designed as a waveguide on which a coupling region and a decoupling region are provided. The coupling region is designed to couple light, which has been emitted from a light source and reflected on an object in the surroundings, into the carrier medium. The coupled ref...