ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,215, issued on March 24, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.) and QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Brisbane, Australia).

"Vehicle pose" was invented by Stephen Hausler (Queensland, Australia), Shubham Shrivastava (Santa Clara, Calif.), Punarjay Chakravarty (Campbell, Calif.), Ankit Girish Vora (Northville, Mich.), Michael Milford (Queensland, Australia) and Sourav Garg (Queensland, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to determine a quantity of relative motion between a host vehicle and a tar...