US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 17 for "Systems and methods for detecting spatial availability around a vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,462, issued on March 17, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for detecting spatial availability around a vehicle" was invented by Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, Mich.), John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.), Vivekanandh Elangovan (Canton, Mich.) and Nicholas Colella (Grosse Ile, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a passenger compartment having a side and an upper wall extending from the side in an upper plan. The vehicle further includes an extension extending from the side of the passenger compartment to an end that extends in an end plane. The vehicle furthe...