ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,278, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CARIAD SE (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for determining and classifying at least one object in a sensing area of a sensor" was invented by Martin Schumann (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for determining and classifying at least one object in a sensing area of a sensor, a two- or three-dimensional image of the sensing area is captured by means of the sensor. Sensor data corresponding to the image is generated. The object in the image is determined by means of the sensor data and by means of first template data of at least one first template object using a neural ...