ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,597, issued on July 8, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Methods and systems for predicting properties of a plurality of objects in a vicinity of a vehicle" was invented by Thomas Kurbiel (Essen, Germany), Maximilian Schaefer (Wuppertal, Germany), Kun Zhao (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Markus Buhren (Erkrath, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for predicting properties of a plurality of objects in a vicinity of a vehicle includes multiple steps that can be carried out by computer hardware components. The method includes determining a grid map representation of road-users ...