US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Nov. 4 for "Method for estimating an ego motion of a vehicle on the basis of measurements of a lidar sensor and computing device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,403, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for estimating an ego motion of a vehicle on the basis of measurements of a lidar sensor and computing device" was invented by Yuran Liang (Munich) and Daniel Schwendner (Pfaffenhofen a.d.Ilm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method estimates an ego motion of a vehicle. The method includes the steps of: determining a first point cloud having a plurality of first points on the basis of sensor data which are provided by a lidar sensor of the vehicle at a first point in time; determining a second point cloud having a plurality of second points on...