ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,225, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Facia supporting an ultra-wide radar field-of-view" was invented by Syed An Nazmus Saqueb (Kokomo, Ind.), Armin Talai (Nuremberg, Germany), Kevin Paul McReynolds (Noblesville, Ind.), Ricardo Cavazos (Kokomo, Ind.) and Mark William Hudson (Russiaville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes facia, including parts of vehicles, for supporting an ultra-wide radar field-of-view, for example, in automotive contexts. The facia is configured as a radome for supporting an ultra-wide field-of-view with an antenna despite the facia obs...