US Patent Issued to Conti Temic microelectronic on July 15 for "Driving profile estimation in an environment model" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,937, issued on July 15, was assigned to Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH (Nuremberg, Germany).

"Driving profile estimation in an environment model" was invented by Kristian Rackow (Grasbrunn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for creating a road model for planning a trajectory of an ego vehicle, includes capturing a vehicle environment with at least one environment capturing sensor. Objects are detected in the vehicle environment. The method includes producing a grid map with a plurality of grid cells and entering the detections into the grid map wherein the detections are enlarged prior to being entered. The method als...