ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,058, issued on March 11, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Track association based on azimuth extension and compactness errors" was invented by Syed Asif Imran (Moorpark, Calif.) and Zixin Liu (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques and systems herein enable track association based on azimuth extension and compactness errors. Specifically, first and second tracks comprising respective locations and footprints of respective objects are received. An azimuth distance is determined based on an azimuth extension error that corresponds to azimuth spread between the first and sec...