US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on Dec. 16 for "Close-range communications with a vehicle's ultrasonic proximity sensors" (Czech, Null Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,478, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Close-range communications with a vehicle's ultrasonic proximity sensors" was invented by Marek Hustava (Bratislava, Slovak Republic) and Pavel Kostelnik (Bordovice, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "illustrative vehicles, systems, and methods adapt ultrasonic sensing arrays for close-range communication with, e.g., smart devices, parking infrastructure, and other vehicles. As one example, an illustrative vehicle includes: one or more ultrasonic sensors configured for proximity sensing; and a controller configured to use ...