ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,476, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).
"Determining criticality for autonomous driving" was invented by Andreas Linnemann (Ravensburg, Germany), Martin Bollmann (Oberteuringen, Germany) and Tobias Merk (Ravensburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control unit (22) is configured for calculating a criticality (Icri) of a driving situation as an overlap integral of an object function (Oego) of an ego vehicle (10) with one or multiple object function(s) (On) of other road users or other static or dynamic objects in the surroundings of the ego vehicle (10). A method for calculati...