US Patent Issued to Valeo Schalter und Sensoren on Dec. 16 for "Active sensor system and object detection" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,451, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

"Active sensor system and object detection" was invented by Sergio Fernandez (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany) and Shuyun Guo (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to a method for operating a sensor system, radiation is emitted during a first and a second measurement time period in order to generate point clouds, the points of which are described by a spatial position and an energy characteristic. A first sub-quantity of a first point cloud and a second sub-quantity of a second point cloud are iden...