US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on Sept. 15 for "Method and device for determining false-positive detections of a lidar sensor" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,642, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and device for determining false-positive detections of a lidar sensor" was invented by David Peter (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining false-positive detections of a lidar sensor in a scanning process of the surroundings of a vehicle involves, for every laser pulse that is reflected back to the lidar sensor in a scan range of this, checking whether this is reflected back several times in different distances. First reflections of a laser pulse that is reflected back several times are clustered and the...