ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,635, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Lidar system having a ray optics diagnosis" was invented by Annette Frederiksen (Renningen, Germany) and Nico Heussner (Karlsruhe, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LiDAR system including an emitter and a detector, as well as a ray optics that is at least developed to deflect a ray of light emitted by the emitter for scanning an environment in a normal operation. The LiDAR system has a diagnosis system situated in the LiDAR system. In a diagnosis operation, the ray optics is configured to deflect the ray of light from the emitter onto the diagnosi...