ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,096, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"LIDAR system having interference source detection" was invented by Holger Maris Gilbergs (Sersheim, Germany), Johannes Richter (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Karl Christoph Goedel (Vaihingen An der Enz, Germany) and Simon Bell (Sersheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lidar system having interference source detection, in particular, for a vehicle. An emitter unit and a detector unit are provided, so that reflected light for sampling a surrounding area may be detected. The light emitted by the emitter unit travels through a window out of the housing, a...