ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,017, issued on March 24, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for optimizing a surroundings model" was invented by Jerg Pfeil (Cleebronn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for optimizing a surroundings model by at least one control unit, measured data being received from a first sensor set and at least one second sensor set. The first sensor set includes a first scanning area, and the second sensor set includes a second scanning area, the first scanning area and the second scanning area partially overlapping in an overlap area. A surroundings model is created for each sensor set based on the ...