US Patent Issued to APTIV TECHNOLOGIES on July 22 for "Method and device for estimating a velocity of an object" (Polish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,644, issued on July 22, was assigned to APTIV TECHNOLOGIES AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Method and device for estimating a velocity of an object" was invented by Mateusz Stachnik (Gdow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for estimating a velocity of an object located in the environment of a vehicle. Detections of a range, an azimuth angle and a range rate of the object are acquired for at least two different points in time via a sensor. A cost function is generated which depends on a first source and a second source. The first source is based on a range rate velocity profile which depends on the range rate...