US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 28 for "Object detection" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,881, issued on July 28, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Object detection" was invented by Christopher Rawsky (Van Buren Township, Mich.), Pradeep Rajalingam (Woodhaven, Mich.) and Jay Patel (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer that includes a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions executable by the processor to, upon initiating a lane change maneuver from a first lane to a second lane by a first vehicle including a first predicted trajectory, determine a second predicted trajectory for a second vehicle in a third lane based on one or more side-looking sensor...