US Patent Issued to VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN on May 13 for "Object recognition by an active optical sensor system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,401, issued on May 13, was assigned to VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBH (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

"Object recognition by an active optical sensor system" was invented by Sergio Fernandez (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany), Christoph Pfrang (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany), Viktor Trusov (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany) and Ali Bassiouny (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to a method for object recognition by an active optical sensor system (2), a detector unit (2b) detects light (3b) reflected off an object (4) and generates a sensor signal (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f) on the basis thereof. A comput...