US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Feb. 17 for "System and method for detecting the surroundings of a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,723, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"System and method for detecting the surroundings of a vehicle" was invented by Erwin Biebl (Munich), Rodrigo Perez (Munich) and Ralph Helmar Rasshofer (Aichach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting the surroundings of a vehicle includes a sensor module and a plurality of computing devices which are spatially separated from one another and which are configured to process the detected surroundings data by way of an artificial neural network. The artificial neural network includes multiple layers of artificial neurons. Each computing ...