ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,299, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to a method for verifying the functionality of a laser scanner (2b) comprising a housing (4) with a light-permeable window (5), a transmission unit (6) inside the housing (4), a deflection unit (10), and a detector unit (7) inside the housing (4), at least one test signal (15) is transmitted by the transmission unit (6) during a test phase. The deflection unit (10) is oriented ...