US Patent Issued to Daimler Truck on April 8 for "Method for detecting lost image information, control apparatus for carrying out a method of this kind, detection device having a control apparatus of this kind and motor vehicle having a detection device of this kind" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,940, issued on April 8, was assigned to Daimler Truck AG (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).

"Method for detecting lost image information, control apparatus for carrying out a method of this kind, detection device having a control apparatus of this kind and motor vehicle having a detection device of this kind" was invented by Fridtjof Stein (Ostfildern, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting lost image information via a lighting device and an optical sensor. The lighting device and the optical sensor are controlled so as to be chronologically aligned with each other. A visible spacing region in an observation r...