ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,981, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for recognizing a road intersection" was invented by Stephan Fuhrmann (Stuttgart, Germany), Paul Wolff (Ludwigsburg, Germany), Jan Oberlaender (Ilsfeld, Germany) and Oezguer Sen (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recognizing a road intersection ahead in the driving direction of a vehicle. In the method, an overall probability of the presence of the road intersection ahead is calculated on the basis of data acquired during the trip of the vehicle and the presence of the road intersection ahead is deduced on the basis of t...