ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,171, issued on July 29, was assigned to dSPACE GMBH (Paderborn, Germany).

"Generation of test data having consistent initial conditions for stimulating a control unit to be tested" was invented by Hagen Haupt (Paderborn, Germany) and Frank Schuette (Paderborn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing raw data recorded from the real world with the aid of a sensor into test data for stimulating a control unit, including: providing recorded raw data from the real world; ascertaining real objects detected by the sensor from the raw data, and generating route data sets, which each describe a scene including images of...