ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,814, issued on March 17, was assigned to Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for determining a cleaning information, method for training of a neural network algorithm, control unit, camera sensor system, vehicle, computer program and storage medium" was invented by Sabin Hamed Salim (Kronach, Germany), Viktor Dering (Langenau, Germany), Thomas Bopp (Ulm, Germany) and Rene Schuster (Neustadt an der WeinstraBe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for determining cleaning information for a camera sensor which includes a blockage on a transparent camera sensor component in an optical cam...