US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 24 for "Object tracking for vehicle" (Michigan, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,387, issued on March 24, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Object tracking for vehicle" was invented by Ghassan Atmeh (Detroit) and Michael Schoenberg (Seattle).

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 associate detected objects from sensor data with tracked objects in a tracking list stored in the memory by executing an association model, determine kinematic states of the tracked objects by executing a Bayesian filter, and update which of the tracked objects are stored in the tracking list by executing...