US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Nov. 3 for "Object relevance potential field for operating vehicle" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,265, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Object relevance potential field for operating vehicle" was invented by Ghassan Atmeh (L'Anse, Mich.).

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 generate a potential field covering an environment surrounding an ego vehicle and centered on the ego vehicle, and determine a relevance score for an object in the environment according to a position of the object in the potential field. The potential field indicates relevance to the ego vehicle."

The patent...