US Patent Issued to Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany on Sept. 29 for "Method and device for the detection and determination of the height of objects" (German, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,319, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method and device for the detection and determination of the height of objects" was invented by Dieter Krokel (Eriskirch, Germany), Jonathan Wache (Bregenz, Austria), Stefan Heinrich (Kressbronn, Germany), Martin Pfitzer (Lindau, Germany) and Thomas Fechner (Wasserburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for the detection and determination of the height of objects by means of an environment detection system, including a first environment detection sensor and a second environment...