ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,484, issued on June 16, was assigned to BDCM A2 LLC (Dover, Del.).
"Radar system for internal and external environmental detection" was invented by Maha Achour (Encinitas, Calif.), Chiara Pelletti (San Francisco) and Sandra Lynn Godsey (McCall, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples disclosed herein relate to radar systems to coordinate detection of objects external to the vehicle and distractions within the vehicle. A method of environmental detection with a radar system includes detecting an object in an external environment of a vehicle with the radar system positioned on the vehicle. The method includes determining a distr...