ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,021, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for detecting a defocusing of a LIDAR sensor, and lidar sensor" was invented by Juan Carlos Garza Fernandez (Stuttgart, Germany) and Patrick Volz (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a defocusing of a LIDAR sensor. The method includes: emitting primary light as a laser line into a field of view of the LIDAR sensor using a laser emitter unit of a transmitting unit of the LIDAR sensor for scanning the field of view; receiving, using a matrix-shaped detector unit of a receiving unit, secondary light reflected and/...