ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,664, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Methods and systems for estimating a height profile of a road around a vehicle" was invented by Wolfgang Doerr (Wiehl, Germany), Jens Westerhoff (Bochum, Germany), Premnaath Sukumar (Bangalore, India) and Javitha J (Kumbakonam, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for estimating a height profile of a road around a vehicle, comprises the following steps carried out by computer hardware components: receiving radar responses captured by a radar sensor mounted on the vehicle; determining an elevation spectrum of the...