US Patent Issued to Volkswagen on Dec. 9 for "Method and device for determining a collision probability of a vehicle with an object in a three-dimensional space" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,126, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method and device for determining a collision probability of a vehicle with an object in a three-dimensional space" was invented by Clemens Markus Hruschka (Braunschweig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Determining a collision probability of a vehicle with an object. A three-dimensional position and orientation of the vehicle and the object is detected. The vehicle is approximated by at least one first geometrical element, that includes a part of the vehicle. The same is done for the object. A first error and a second error is determined in relation to ...