ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,878, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Vehicle, apparatus, computer program and method for at least partially compensating for an observation error when estimating the course of a road" was invented by Frank Keidel (Poing, Germany), Alexander Born (Munich), Tilman Nowak (Erfurt, Germany) and Sean Brown (Deggendorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for compensating for an observation error when estimating a course of a road in an environment of a vehicle. A state function is obtained for mapping the estimated course of the road. Environment meas...