ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,599, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Lidar sensor" was invented by Albert Groening (Stuttgart, Germany), Andre Albuquerque (Penalva do Castelo, Portugal), Frederik Ante (Lampertheim, Germany) and Stefan Spiessberger (Weinstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lidar sensor. The lidar sensor includes a light source and a fly eye lens arrangement having a first microlens arrangement and a second microlens arrangement. The first microlens arrangement comprises a plurality of identical first microlenses stacked along a first axis. The second microlens arrangement comprises a plurality o...