US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on May 26 for "Vehicle, device, computer program and method for estimating a road profile" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,083, issued on May 26, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Vehicle, device, computer program and method for estimating a road profile" was invented by Frank Keidel (Poing, Germany), Tilman Nowak (Erfurt, Germany), Alexander Born (Munich) and Sean Brown (Deggendorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided for estimating a road profile in surroundings of a vehicle by using a state function that describes the road profile and a Bayes filter for adapting the state function based on surroundings measurement data. Sensor-captured surroundings measurement data is received. Info...