ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,836, issued on July 1, was assigned to Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

"Filtering measurement data of an active optical sensor system" was invented by Sergio Fernandez (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany), Shuyun Guo (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany) and Christoph Pfrang (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to a method for filtering measurement data of a sensor system (2), light pulses (5) reflected in the environment of the sensor system (2) are captured by means of an array (7) of optical detectors (8, 9, 10). A multiplicity of measurement signals (11, 12) are generated b...