US Patent Issued to Aptiv Technologies on March 18 for "Stable radar track velocity initialization using multiple hypotheses" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,594, issued on March 18, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Stable radar track velocity initialization using multiple hypotheses" was invented by Zixin Liu (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes an object tracker that performs stable velocity initialization for radar tracks, using multiple hypotheses, including when only sparse radar point clouds are available. With just a single point per scan, the tracker creates multiple hypotheses for the direction and speed of an object. A least square function can be applied to each hypothesis to derive each respective initi...