ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,388, issued on March 24, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Method for determining a free space in vehicle surroundings" was invented by Friedrich Keller (Lippstadt, Germany), Michael Skutek (Erwitte, Germany) and Wladimir Fischer (Liesborn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining at least one free space in vehicle surroundings of a vehicle. The method includes receiving at least two-dimensional contour points of objects in the vehicle surroundings, assigning the received contour points to a plurality of rows, which subdivide into rows pf at least one field of vision situated in the ...