ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,418, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Automotive radar for mapping and localization" was invented by Stefan Andreas Brisken (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle (AV) includes a radar sensor and a hardware logic component. The radar sensor receives a radar return from a driving environment of the vehicle and outputs radar data that is indicative of the return to the hardware logic component. The hardware logic component further receives data indicative of a velocity of the vehicle from a sensor mounted on the vehicle. The hardware logic component is configured to employ synthetic ...