ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,746, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method, control unit, and system for controlling an automated vehicle" was invented by Christian Schildwaechter (Besigheim, Germany), Hong Quan Tran (Heilbronn, Germany) and Yupeng Wu (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an automated vehicle. In a first method part, the instantaneous surroundings of the automated vehicle are detected using an on-board surroundings sensor system. A localization of the automated vehicle takes place based on a comparison of the data of the surroundings sensor system to a previously pro...