US Patent Issued to Valeo Schalter und Sensoren on June 9 for "Verification of the functionality of a laser scanner" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,500, issued on June 9, was assigned to Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

"Verification of the functionality of a laser scanner" was invented by Nikolai Sergeev (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany) and Daniel Thiel (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for verifying the functionality of a laser scanner includes a housing with a light-permeable window, a transmission unit inside the housing, a deflection unit, and a detector unit inside the housing. At least one test signal is transmitted by the transmission unit during a test phase. The deflection unit is oriented so that the ...