Patents by Inventor Tim Rakowski

Tim Rakowski has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Computer-Implemented Method and Device for Designing a Data Collection Campaign for a Motor Vehicle
    Publication number: 20250299519
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for designing a data collection campaign for a motor vehicle. The method includes determining a maximum storage capacity of a ring memory of a motor vehicle; determining information needed to achieve a predefined objective of the data collection campaign; determining data present in the motor vehicle; selecting the data to be stored in the ring memory via the data collection campaign from the data present in the motor vehicle based on the maximum storage capacity of the ring memory and the information needed to achieve the predefined objective of the data collection campaign; and defining the data collection campaign based on the selected data to be stored in the ring memory by means of the data collection campaign.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: September 25, 2025
    Inventors: Andreas BAUMGARTL, Tim RAKOWSKI, Loren SCHWARZ
  • Method and device for multi-sensor data fusion for automated and autonomous vehicles
    Patent number: 12217516
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method estimates a course of a roadway in a surrounding area of a vehicle on the basis of a state function describing the course of a roadway. The state function includes a clothoid spline. The method includes providing surrounding-area measurement data describing the course of a roadway at a current position of the vehicle, the surrounding-area measurement data having at least one polynomial function. The method also includes transforming the state function and the surrounding-area measurement data into a common coordinate system. The method further includes adapting the state function on the basis of the surrounding-area measurement data in the common coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Frank Keidel, Sebastian Rauch, Sean Brown, Tim Rakowski, Alexander Born, Fernando Herrero Carron, Joachim Schiehlen
  • Method and Device for Multi-Sensor Data Fusion For Automated and Autonomous Vehicles
    Publication number: 20220101637
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method estimates a course of a roadway in a surrounding area of a vehicle on the basis of a state function describing the course of a roadway. The state function includes a clothoid spline. The method includes providing surrounding-area measurement data describing the course of a roadway at a current position of the vehicle, the surrounding-area measurement data having at least one polynomial function. The method also includes transforming the state function and the surrounding-area measurement data into a common coordinate system. The method further includes adapting the state function on the basis of the surrounding-area measurement data in the common coordinate system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Frank Keidel, Sebastian Rauch, Sean Brown, Tim Rakowski, Alexander Born, Fernando Herrero Carron, Joachim Schiehlen