US Patent Issued to Covestro Deutschland on Aug. 26 for "IR-transparent sensor and camera system for motor vehicles" (German, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,256, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Covestro Deutschland AG (Leverkusen, Germany).

"IR-transparent sensor and camera system for motor vehicles" was invented by Ulrich Grosser (Kurten, Germany), Alexander Meyer (Dusseldorf, Germany), Thomas Pfingst (Tonisvorst, Germany), Peter Capellen (Krefeld, Germany), Rafael Oser (Krefeld, Germany), Rainer Hagen (Leverkusen, Germany), Tobias Sadler (Monheim Am Rhein, Germany), Vincenzo Taravella (Curno, Italy), Andrea Crotti (Curno, Italy) and Stefania Scotuzzi (Brembate di Sopra, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor system comprises a LiDAR unit, a camera for visible light and a cove...