US Patent Issued to Siemens on March 18 for "Sensor data generation for controlling an autonomous vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,145, issued on March 18, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Sensor data generation for controlling an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Andres Botero Halblaub (Kirchseeon, Germany), Hermann Georg Mayer (Prien am Chiemsee, Germany) and Jan Christoph Wehrstedt (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for generating sensor data for controlling an autonomous vehicle in an environment is provided, such as driverless transport vehicles in a factory for example. Sensor positions of static sensors and the sensors of autonomous vehicles are defined in a global coordinate system on the basis of an environment mode...