ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,231, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Qualcomm Auto Ltd. (San Diego).
"Vehicle radar system for detecting preceding objects" was invented by Moroine Laoufi (Courbevoie, France), Florian Trompeter (Hammelburg, Germany), Christian Schwert (Hassfurt, Germany) and Jeremy Bernard (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle environment detection system (3) including a control unit arrangement (8) and at least one sensor arrangement (4) that is arranged to be mounted in an ego vehicle (1) and to provide sensor detections (9, 12) for at least two preceding target vehicles (10, 11). The control unit arrangement (8) is arranged to deter...