ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,652, issued on July 14, was assigned to CARIAD SE (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for spatial characterization of at least one vehicle image" was invented by Micha Bruns (Berlin) and Daniel Degenhardt (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for the spatial characterization of at least one vehicle image of image information, wherein the image information encompasses the vehicle image of an external vehicle and an environment image of an environment of the external vehicle. The method comprises: determining a bounding box for the vehicle image, in order to use the bounding box for a delimiting of the vehicle image fro...