ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,686, issued on May 27, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and validation system for validating a software component for highly automated driving" was invented by Christian Schilling (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for validating a software component for highly automated driving is disclosed, wherein unprocessed video data, which depict at least one driving situation recorded from a vehicle perspective by a recording vehicle are read by a data processing system and processed into preprocessed video data using a vehicle processor connected to the data processing sys...