US Patent Issued to VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN on April 29 for "Method for determining a distance of an object with the aid of an optical detection apparatus and optical detection apparatus" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,433, issued on April 29, was assigned to VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBH (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

"Method for determining a distance of an object with the aid of an optical detection apparatus and optical detection apparatus" was invented by Daniel Stricker-Shaver (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany), Jochen Schenk (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany) and Frank Selbmann (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a distance of an object with the aid of an optical detection apparatus and such an apparatus are described. A light signal pulse is emitted and reflected at the object, and is receive...