ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,798, issued on May 26, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for detecting imaging degradation of an imaging sensor" was invented by Stephan Lenor (Gerlingen, Germany), Andreas Scharf (Stuttgart, Germany), Christian Wolf (Walddorfhaeslach, Germany), Gergo Feher (Teglas, Hungary) and Zsolt Vizi (Szeged, Hungary).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting imaging degradation of an imaging sensor includes (i) providing an image of a surrounding area, said image being generated by the imaging sensor; (ii) detecting imaging degradation for each sub-image of a plurality of sub-images of the image using a ...