ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,244, issued on July 1, was assigned to NISSAN NORTH AMERICA INC. (Franklin, Tenn.).
"Vehicle lane marking detection system" was invented by Atsuhide Kobashi (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Christopher Ostafew (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle lane marking detection system includes a 3D sensor, a driver assist component and an electronic controller. The 3D sensor is installed to a vehicle and is configured to scan physical objects around the vehicle outputting a plurality of data points each corresponding to a surface point of a physical feature. Each data point being defined by distance, direction, intensity an...