ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,354, issued on June 24, was assigned to Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. KG Bamberg (Germany).

"Method for identifying and classifying objects, and motor vehicle" was invented by Christopher Trenkle (Bamberg, Germany), Carsten Topf (Schonungen, Germany), Julian Adametz (Nuremberg, Germany), Benjamin Grunewald (Hassfurt / Augsfeld, Germany) and Wolfgang Uebel (Weitramsdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying and classifying objects in the surroundings of a motor vehicle, which method uses merely a single sensor for object detection. The method is characterized in that this single sensor moves in space while th...