ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,728, issued on June 23, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for creating a reference map representation" was invented by Ali Alawieh (Untergruppenbach, Germany), Alexandru Paul Condurache (Renningen, Germany) and Tobias Strauss (Bad Wimpfen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for creating a reference map representation using an artificial neural network, wherein the neural network comprises an encoder and a decoder. The method includes: receiving point cloud data representing a point cloud of the environment of the motor vehicle that was created on the basis of a detection of an environment of...