US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Technologies on Nov. 3 for "Method for determining the relative orientation of two vehicles" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,255, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for determining the relative orientation of two vehicles" was invented by Lucien Garcia (Tournefeuille, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the orientation of a vehicle with respect to a reference object, each having an image sensor, is described. The method includes: receiving an image acquired by each image sensor of the vehicle, in which the vehicle/reference object is visible; receiving information on the position of each image sensor with respect to the reference object/vehicle on which it is ins...