ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,053, issued on March 11, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Radar data processing for vehicle ego-motion estimation" was invented by Stephanie Lessmann (Erkrath, Germany) and Wolfgang Doerr (Wiehl, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a way to process radar data for a radar sensor mounted on a vehicle to generate motion spectrum data for estimating ego-motion information of the vehicle. Data samples of each of a plurality of radar return signals received at each antenna element of the radar sensor are generated for each antenna element. Respective Doppler-processed data including a plu...