ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,584, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for supplementary detection of objects by a LIDAR system" was invented by Andreas Scharf (Stuttgart, Germany), Florian Mauch (Talheim, Germany), Johannes Richter (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Remigius Has (Grafenau-Daetzingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the supplementary detection of objects by a LIDAR system. The LIDAR system is configured to scan a solid angle range to carry out a primary distance determination method for surroundings objects. An emitter unit emits at least one laser beam in a solid angle strip of the solid...