US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on March 31 for "Method of classifying a road surface object, method of training an artificial neural network, and method of operating a driver warning function or an automated driving function" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,089, issued on March 31, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method of classifying a road surface object, method of training an artificial neural network, and method of operating a driver warning function or an automated driving function" was invented by Felix Lattemann (Munich), Burkard Rendenbach (Munich) and Maxim Sidorov (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A road surface is classified by providing a set of data points that is attributable to a same road surface object. Each data point specifies a first variable and a second variable. For each data point, the first variable characterizes a horizontal motion ...