US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Oct. 28 for "Method for detecting objects in the surroundings of a vehicle by determining coverage of the objects, computing device, and sensor system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,165, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method for detecting objects in the surroundings of a vehicle by determining coverage of the objects, computing device, and sensor system" was invented by Dominik Kellner (Dachau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting objects in the surroundings of a vehicle includes receiving sensor data which describe the objects in the surroundings from a surroundings sensor of the vehicle; determining each of the corners of the objects, with the corners describing outer delimitations of each object; determining a relative position of each of the...