ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,595, issued on June 24, was assigned to Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Lane detection system and method for a vehicle" was invented by Ibrahim Halfaoui (Munich), Fahd Bouzaraa (Munich) and Onay Urfalioglu (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lane detection system or a vehicle is provided for determining a current lane of a multi-lane road, which the vehicle is driving on. The lane detection system comprises a processing circuitry configured to: obtain a current image of the multi-lane road, i.e. the driving scene; determine a first candidate current lane, i.e. a first estimate of the curren...