ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,546, issued on July 28, was assigned to Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method and system for correcting a position of at least one feature in the surroundings of an ego vehicle" was invented by Peter Barth (Wolnzach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for correcting a position of at least one feature in the surroundings of an ego vehicle by means of a fusion of data from at least a first and a second surroundings detection sensor, including: recording the surroundings of the ego vehicle using the first surroundings detection sensor and generating a first representation of the surroun...