US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive on Feb. 11 for "Identifying the contour of a vehicle on the basis of measurement data from an environment sensor system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,116, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Continental Automotive GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Identifying the contour of a vehicle on the basis of measurement data from an environment sensor system" was invented by Michael Feser (Barbing, Germany), Kilian Schneider (Augsburg, Germany), Thomas Brandmeier (Wenzenbach Irlbach, Germany), Alexander Kamann (Regensburg, Germany), Robert Lugner (Ingolstadt, Germany), Daniel Weichselberger (Denkendorf, Germany) and Robert Naumann (Bad Griesbach i. Rottal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying the contour of a vehicle based on measurement data from an environment sensor s...