ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,927, issued on June 16, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for detecting information about at least one object and/or at least a part of free space in a representation of the environment of a system" was invented by Denis Tananaev (Sindelfingen, Germany), Ze Guo (Berlin) and Steffen Abraham (Hildesheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting information about at least one object and/or at least a part of the free space in a representation (4) of the environment of a system. The method comprises: a) performing ground truth generation; b) performing an obstacle and clearance detection...