US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 15 for "Systems and methods of environmental detection for a vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,680, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods of environmental detection for a vehicle" was invented by Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, Mich.) and John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for monitoring an environment of a vehicle. The method includes generating, via at least one time-of-flight sensor, at least one point cloud representing the environment of the vehicle, the at least one point cloud including three-dimensional positional information of the environment. The method also includes detecting, via processing circuitry in...