US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Nov. 11 for "Methods and systems for handling occlusions in operation of autonomous vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,416, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and systems for handling occlusions in operation of autonomous vehicle" was invented by Damir Mirkovic (Munich), Daniel Althoff (Bavaria, Germany), Christian Appelt (Gifhorn, Germany), Georgios Fagogenis (Munich) and David Lenz (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle navigates an environment in which occlusions block the vehicle's ability to detect moving objects. The vehicle handles this by receiving sensor data corresponding to the environment, identifying one or more particles of a plurality of initialized particle...