ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,734, issued on May 19, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for operating a LIDAR unit" was invented by Mirko Hattass (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emitter unit is designed to emit segments of electromagnetic radiation temporally offset to one another along a line. A detector includes a plurality of linearly situated detector channels. A first sequence and at least one second sequence of segments are emitted. The sequences differ at least with respect to a temporal distance between two successive segments. First signals and second signals are detected on the basis of segments of the f...