ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,731, issued on May 19, was assigned to OSRAM GMBH (Munich).

"Optical package for a LIDAR sensor system and LIDAR sensor system" was invented by Ricardo Ferreira (Olching, Germany), Stefan Hadrath (Falkensee, Germany), Peter Hoehmann (Berlin), Herbert Kaestle (Traunstein, Germany), Florian Kolb (Jena, Germany), Norbert Magg (Berlin), Jiye Park (Munich), Tobias Schmidt (Garching, Germany), Martin Schnarrenberger (Berlin), Norbert Haas (Langenau, Germany), Helmut Horn (Achberg, Germany), Bernhard Siessegger (Unterschleissheim, Germany), Guido Angenendt (Munich), Charles Braquet (Munich), Gerhard Maierbacher (Munich), Oliver Neitzke (Dachau, Germany) and Sergey Khrushchev (Regensburg, ...