ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,428, issued on March 17, was assigned to APTIV TECHNOLOGIES AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Method for estimating a mounting position of a radar sensor" was invented by Wolfgang Doerr (Wiehl, Germany) and Jens Westerhoff (Bochum, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for determining a mounting position of a radar sensor at a vehicle. The mounting position is defined with respect to a ground plane on which the vehicle is currently located. Radar responses captured by the radar sensor are received, wherein a field of view of the radar sensor covers at least a predefined area of the ground plane. A sequence of ch...