US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group, Robert Bosch on Oct. 21 for "Method and device for identifying blooming candidates in a Lidar measurement" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,548, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany) and Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and device for identifying blooming candidates in a Lidar measurement" was invented by David Peter (Stuttgart, Germany), Matthias Pfender (Winnenden, Germany), Markus Enzweiler (Deckenpfronn, Germany), Axel Fink (Tubingen, Germany) and Philipp Lehner (Muhlacker, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying blooming candidates in a Lidar measurement may include providing a distance-based histogram of points of a point cloud generated in the Lidar measurement. In the histogram, clust...