US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on June 30 for "Method and device for determining a detection range of a sensor of a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,594, issued on June 30, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and device for determining a detection range of a sensor of a motor vehicle" was invented by Luca Parolini (Landshut, Germany) and Sebastian Schneider (Feldkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a detection range of a sensor installed in a motor vehicle is provided. The sensor scans a surroundings of the motor vehicle. The method includes detecting a predefined object in the surroundings of the motor vehicle by way of the sensor, determining a distance of the detected object to the motor vehicle and determining the ...