US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Oct. 7 for "Method and apparatus for sensor data fusion for a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,265, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and apparatus for sensor data fusion for a vehicle" was invented by Dominik Bauch (Muehldorf am Inn, Germany), Marco Baumgartl (Gilching, Germany), Michael Himmelsbach (Munich), Josef Mehringer (Gmund, Germany), Daniel Meissner (Friedberg, Germany) and Luca Trentinaglia (Eichenau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for sensor data fusion for a vehicle as well as a vehicle, a computer program, and a computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. A distance sensor (S1) is associated with the vehicle (F), and wherein in the me...