ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,363, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method and device for sensing the environment of a vehicle driving with at least semi-automation" was invented by Umair Rasheed (Wolfsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies and techniques for sensing the environment of a vehicle driving with at least semi-automation. The environment of the vehicle is captured via at least one sensor, wherein sensor data captured by the at least one sensor are evaluated by an evaluation device via at least one evaluation method in a first resolution. The captured sensor data in at least one defined focus r...