US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Oct. 6 for "Device and method for determining the distance of a light signal transmitter based on machine-learned fusion of individual distance estimates of object and light signal transmitter from vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,409, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Device and method for determining the distance of a light signal transmitter based on machine-learned fusion of individual distance estimates of object and light signal transmitter from vehicle" was invented by Reinhard Cavetchi (Hallbergmoos, Germany) and Michel Lanz (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for determining an estimated value of the distance of a light signal transmitter from a motor vehicle is described. The apparatus is configured, based on image data from a camera of the vehicle, to recognize a number of objects in an environme...