US Patent Issued to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES on July 1 for "Method and device for determining a target position of a surroundings sensor of a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,800, issued on July 1, was assigned to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Method and device for determining a target position of a surroundings sensor of a vehicle" was invented by Katharina Burger (Munich), Willibald Reitmeier (Munich), Friedbert Stuhlfelner (Munich) and Philipp Seifert (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for determining a target position of a surroundings sensor of a vehicle using a vehicle-side attachment element as a calibration object, wherein the sensor and the attachment element are movable relative to each other. The method includes...