US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN, AUDI on Nov. 11 for "Distance measurement by means of an active optical sensor system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,033, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany) and AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Distance measurement by means of an active optical sensor system" was invented by Heiko Kurz (Hannover, Germany), Marc-Michael Meinecke (Sassenburg, Germany), Christoph Kottke (Berlin), Patrick Runge (Berlin), Pascal Rustige (Berlin), Ronald Freund (Berlin) and Michael Schwenkert (Ingolstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for distance measurement by means of an active optical sensor system is disclosed, comprising: an initial pulse sequence with an initial frequency spectrum, which corresponds to a frequenc...