ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,481, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GMBH (Karlsbad-Ittersbach, Germany).
"Image sensor based countermeasures for improving electronic system integrity" was invented by Ivan Iliev Ivanov (Bayern, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are mechanisms and methods for maintaining and/or achieving a target Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) level for a vehicle. One or more shutters of one or more corresponding image sensors of the vehicle may be repeatedly closed at a predetermined rate. While the shutters are closed, output values of each image sensor may be measured. A soft err...