US Patent Issued to Valeo Schalter und Sensoren on Sept. 15 for "Method for measuring a lateral surrounding area of a vehicle, measuring device, and vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,672, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

"Method for measuring a lateral surrounding area of a vehicle, measuring device, and vehicle" was invented by Nicolas Jecker (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic measuring method involves activating an ultrasonic transceiver at a multiplicity of transmission/reception positions along a lateral direction to transmit a respective transmission signal in a transverse direction and receive a respective received signal waveform. Echo signals in the respective received signal waveform are identif...