ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,063, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTONOMOUS MOBILITY GERMANY GMBH (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for detecting road users" was invented by Martin Pfitzer (Lindau, Germany), Stefan Heinrich (Achern, Germany), Manuel du Bois (Bad Freienwalde, Germany), Felix Hachfeld (Lindau, Germany) and Elias Strigel (Wangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method and system for recognizing road users, in particular persons in road traffic The method includes the following steps: recording at least one ambient image or a sequence of ambient images an optical sensor of a vehicle, detecting ...