US Patent Issued to Volvo Car on Nov. 4 for "Method and system for providing an estimation of a vehicle geometry of a surrounding vehicle, vehicle, and computer-readable medium" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,577, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method and system for providing an estimation of a vehicle geometry of a surrounding vehicle, vehicle, and computer-readable medium" was invented by Shuangshuang Chen (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Tobias Johansson (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for providing an estimation of a vehicle geometry of a surrounding vehicle (40). In a first step of the method, an image (I) of at least a portion of the surrounding vehicle (40) is received, the portion comprising a license plate (42) affixed to the surrounding vehicle...