US Patent Issued to VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN on April 7 for "Method for operating an ultrasonic sensor, computer program product, ultrasonic sensor system and vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,186, issued on April 7, was assigned to VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBH (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

"Method for operating an ultrasonic sensor, computer program product, ultrasonic sensor system and vehicle" was invented by Jean Francois Bariant (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany), Radhakrishna Chivukula (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany) and Anto Joys Yesuadimai Michael (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an ultrasonic sensor is disclosed. The ultrasonic sensor includes a membrane and an exciter element for exciting the membrane and for detecting a vibration of the membrane. The method...