US Patent Issued to ZENSEACT on Sept. 8 for "Method and device for determining free-space" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,889, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to ZENSEACT AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method and device for determining free-space" was invented by Thor Stefansson (Gothenburg, Sweden), Mathias Ernst (Gothenburg, Sweden), Staffan Nilsson (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Omer Faruk Adil (Vargarda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining free-space in a surrounding environment of a vehicle equipped with an automated driving system, ADS. The method includes: obtaining an image depicting the surrounding environment of the vehicle; determining: for each reference point of a plurality of reference points in the image, segmentation data...