US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 15 for "Obstruction detection for a vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,667, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Obstruction detection for a vehicle" was invented by Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, Mich.), Vivekanandh Elangovan (Canton, Mich.), John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, 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 at least one time-of-flight device configured to capture positional information about cargo in the vehicle and an obstruction outside the vehicle. Control circuitry is in communication with the at least one time-of-flight device. The control circuitry is configure...