US Patent Issued to Aptiv Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Determining a location of a damage applied to a parked vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,627, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Determining a location of a damage applied to a parked vehicle" was invented by Vikas Kumar (Gummersbach, Germany), Rainer Bunse (Morsbach, Germany), Christoph Rott (Cologne, Germany), Philipp Botschen (Cologne, Germany) and Roland Menne (Olpe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods for determining the location of a damage applied to a parked vehicle using an acceleration sensor and an ultrasonic sensor provided at an electronic control unit within the interior of the parked vehicle."

The patent was filed on July 11, 202...