ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,627, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and device for aligning a lens system" was invented by Benno Geisselmann (Sonthofen, Germany), Tobias Windisch (Immenstadt, Germany) and Steffen Loewendorf (Kempten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for ascertaining an alignment of a lens system. The method include: aligning the lens system according to a provided first alignment; ascertaining a first refracted optical signal, the first refracted optical signal being ascertained by a refraction of a first emitted optical signal at the lens system (aligned according to the first alig...