ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,034, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Volvo Autonomous Solutions AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method and unit for evaluating a performance of an obstacle detection system" was invented by Linus Hagvall (Gothenburg, Sweden), Stefan Bergquist (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Christian Grante (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a central unit for evaluating a performance of an obstacle detection system comprised in a first object within a set of two or more objects at a confined area. The first object is a vehicle. The central unit obtains pose data from each object in the set and obstacle detection data...