US Patent Issued to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 28 for "System for generating confidence values in digital road maps" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,172, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hannover, Germany).

"System for generating confidence values in digital road maps" was invented by Henning Hamer (Munich) and Holger Karn (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for generating confidence values for objects in a digital road map comprising a backend and an object recognition device including: a capture unit, an evaluation unit, a positioning unit, and a transceiver. The capture unit captures surroundings data of a vehicle. The positioning unit determines a position of the captured surroundings data and objects contained therein. ...