US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group, Robert Bosch on Oct. 21 for "Method and device for identifying contamination on a protective screen of a lidar sensor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,518, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany) and Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and device for identifying contamination on a protective screen of a lidar sensor" was invented by Philipp Schindler (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Andreas Scharf (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for identifying contamination on a protective screen of a lidar sensor may involve determining a sector background noise in a particular sector of a detection region of the lidar sensor and a detection region background noise is determined in a remaining detection region or th...