ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,124, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"System for monitoring a traffic situation" was invented by Rolf Schmid (Uerikon, Switzerland), Florian Poprawa (Freiburg, Germany) and Ludger Fiege (Grafing, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring a traffic situation includes at least one radar sensor unit for recording environmental data in a monitoring region of the radar sensor unit. A central processor evaluates the environmental data from the radar sensor unit and determines the traffic situation within the monitoring region based on the environmental data. A reference signal...