ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,247, issued on June 30, was assigned to ZENSEACT AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Model-based road estimation" was invented by Ossian Eriksson (Linkoping, Sweden), Lars Hammarstrand (Molnlycke, Sweden), Yuxuan Xia (Gothenburg, Sweden), Sachin Madhusudhana (Gothenburg, Sweden), Valentin Kovbas (Hisings Backa, Sweden) and Junsheng Fu (Nodinge, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for estimating a road geometry of a road upon which a vehicle is traveling and related aspects are disclosed. The disclosed embodiments provide a model-based technique for estimating a road model having an arbitrary number of lanes on a...