US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on March 18 for "Sensing an object in the surroundings of a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,068, issued on March 18, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Sensing an object in the surroundings of a motor vehicle" was invented by Bernhard Dehlink (Munich), Mehdi Farid (Munich), Gunter Hannig (Fuerstenfeldbruck, Germany), Nico Kaempchen (Marzling, Germany) and Christian Unger (Maisach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for sensing at least one object in the surroundings of a motor vehicle, includes at least one first sensor for classifying the at least one object, the ability of the at least one first sensor to carry out classification depending on the brightness of the at least one object; at ...