ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,088, issued on March 31, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Anchor for line recognition" was invented by Azhar Sultan (Tunbridge Wells, Great Britain), Joel Janai (Leonberg, Germany), Tamas Kapelner (Hildesheim, Germany) and Thomas Wenzel (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining at least one anchor for an anchor-based lane line recognition and/or roadway marking recognition in a digital image representation on the basis of sensor data that are obtained from at least one surroundings sensor of a system. The method includes at least the following steps: a) receiving a digital imag...