ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,003, issued on Jan. 13.

"Method and system for determining ground level using an artificial neural network" was invented by Thomas Fechner (Nuremberg, Germany), Stefan Heinrich (Nuremberg, Germany), Dieter Krokel (Nuremberg, Germany) and Heiko Gustav Kurz (Hannover, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the roadway plane in the surrounding area of a vehicle, the vehicle comprising a stereo camera system for capturing stereo images of the surrounding area of the vehicle and an artificial neural network for processing the image information provided by the stereo camera system, wherein the neural network determ...