ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,772, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Method for improved surroundings detection" was invented by Martin Iudica (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Sebastien Reisinger (Hamm am Rhein, Germany), Ahmed Abdeldaym (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Frank Edling (Schwalbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for improved surroundings detection utilizing an optical sensor of a vehicle. The method includes detecting the surroundings of the vehicle and compiling a first surroundings model based on sensor data of the surroundings detecting sensor. The method also in...