ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,681, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart-Feuerbach, Germany) and Daimler AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Detection of malfunctions of the switching state detection of light signal systems" was invented by Markus Gressmann (Boblingen, Germany), Robert Lutz (Stuttgart, Germany) and Frank Lindner (Ulm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for evaluating a functionality of a camera arrangement including a pair of cameras using a control unit includes determining a first switching state of a light signal system based on a first measurement data from a first camera of the pair of cameras, and determining a se...