US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 9 for "Detection system for a vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,507, issued on June 9, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Detection system for a vehicle" was invented by Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, Mich.) and Nicholas Colella (Grosse Ile, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection system for a vehicle includes a first time-of-flight module configured to emit and receive a first wireless transmission range to capture first positional information about a compartment of the vehicle. The detection system further includes a second time-of-flight module configured to emit and receive a second wireless transmission range to capture second positional information abo...