US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motorenwerke on Jan. 28 for "Method and processing unit for determining the size of an object" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,803, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Bayerische Motorenwerke AG (Munich).

"Method and processing unit for determining the size of an object" was invented by Sascha Steyer (Munich), Dominik Kellner (Dachau, Germany) and Georg Tanzmeister (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method (700) for determining the value of a size of an object (150) is described. The method (710) comprises determining (711) an occupancy grid (200) indicating evidence that individual cells (201) are vacant or occupied by the object (150). Further, the method (710) comprises determining (712) a subset of cells (201) associated with the object (150). Furth...