US Patent Issued to CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY GERMANY on April 7 for "Method for determining the position of an object with respect to a road marking line of a road" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,272, issued on April 7, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY GERMANY GMBH (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for determining the position of an object with respect to a road marking line of a road" was invented by Lucien Garcia (Tournefeuille, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the position of an object with respect to a road line marking of a road, by generating a sequence of images of the vehicle's rear environment; selecting at least one point on the road line marking in the lower part of at least the first image of the sequence and tracking the advance of the at least one point in the images of ...