ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,393, issued on May 5, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"System for detecting moving objects" was invented by Smruti Ranjan Panigrahi (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Erol Dogan Sumer (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Ehsan Arabi (Farmington Hills, Mich.).
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 determine a location and a trajectory of a moving object with respect to a stationary vehicle based on one or more first stationary vehicle sensors. A threat level can be determined based on the location and the trajectory of th...