ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,354, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

"Content capture of an environment of a vehicle using a priori confidence levels" was invented by Martin Simon (Kronach Neuses, Germany), Johannes Petzold (Kronach Neuses, Germany) and Marco Heinen (Kronach Neuses, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the content capture of an environment of a vehicle is disclosed. The method uses an artificial intelligence neural network, on the basis of a point cloud generated by an environment sensor of the vehicle. The method involves performing reference measurements by the envi...