ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,474, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and device for pose data relating to pose of a vehicle" was invented by Martin Liebner (Munich) and David Pannen (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for determining positional information relating to the position of a vehicle is configured to determine a measured value of an acceleration vector of the vehicle, and to determine a value of a dynamic component of the measured value of the acceleration vector caused by a movement of the vehicle. The device is further configured to determine an estimated value of the gravity vector based on t...