US Patent Issued to CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY GERMANY on Dec. 9 for "Method for implementing a light detection and ranging LIDAR device in a motor vehicle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,106, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY GERMANY GMBH (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for implementing a light detection and ranging LIDAR device in a motor vehicle" was invented by Thibault Caron (Toulouse, France) and Boris Lugez (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for implementing a LIDAR device in a motor vehicle, including the following steps: determining the number of bright nearby points of the point cloud, a bright nearby point being defined as a point that meets the following two conditions: the distance of separation corresponding to the point is less than a first predetermi...