ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,072, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Optical sensor" was invented by Mustafa Kamil (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Nico Heussner (Karlsruhe, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical sensor includes first and second light detectors, an optical path, and an evaluation unit. The first light detector detects light in the infrared wavelength range. A light sensitivity of the CCD sensors of the first and second light detectors differ from one another with regard to a predefined wavelength range. The first and second light detectors include pixels in columns and situated next to one another so...