ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,938, issued on July 29, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Apparatus and method for capturing surroundings of a vehicle" was invented by Florian Krieft (Lippstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for capturing surroundings of a vehicle, which includes an illumination unit for emitting light pulses into surroundings, an optical capture unit for detecting the surroundings, an evaluation unit for evaluating a detection signal recorded by the optical capture unit. The illumination unit is designed such that at least two light pulses are periodically emitted, luminous areas of the light pulses...