US Patent Issued to ROBERT BOSCH on April 21 for "LIDAR system and method for recognizing a contamination of a beam path of a LIDAR system" (German, Portuguese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,728, issued on April 21, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"LIDAR system and method for recognizing a contamination of a beam path of a LIDAR system" was invented by Aron Dassler (Ditzingen, Germany), Christian Graef (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Felix Christian Abrecht (Nagold, Germany), Helmut Kramer (Mainbernheim, Germany), Joao Pedro Ribeiro (Oporto, Portugal), Miguel Mendes (Pombal, Germany), Nikolaus Moehler (Boeblingen, Germany) and Patrick Volz (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LIDAR system. The LIDAR system includes a light transmitting unit and a light receiving unit. A beam path is forme...