US Patent Issued to ZKW Group on July 8 for "System for monitoring the surroundings of a motor vehicle" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,086, issued on July 8, was assigned to ZKW Group GmbH (Wieselburg, Austria).

"System for monitoring the surroundings of a motor vehicle" was invented by Martin Brandstetter (Ybbs, Austria), Johann Altmann (Gmund, Austria), Martin Sporn (Melk, Austria), Harald Bechmann (Wieselburg, Austria), Ingeborg Bednar (Vienna) and Christian Jackl (Wieselburg, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a system (1) for monitoring the surroundings of a motor vehicle (100), in particular an autonomous or semi-autonomous motor vehicle, wherein the system (1) includes at least one optical image capturing device (2) as well as furt...