ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,849, issued on July 8, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Methods and systems for detection of objects in a vicinity of a vehicle" was invented by Mirko Meuter (Erkrath, Germany), Jittu Kurian (Wuppertal, Germany), Yu Su (Wuppertal, Germany), Jan Siegemund (Cologne, Germany), Zhiheng Niu (Wuppertal, Germany), Stephanie Lessmann (Erkrath, Germany), Saeid Khalili Dehkordi (Berlin), Florian Kastner (Bochum, Germany), Igor Kossaczky (Wuppertal, Germany), Sven Labusch (Cologne, Germany), Arne Grumpe (Essen, Germany), Markus Schoeler (Wuppertal, Germany), Moritz Luszek (Detmold, Germany), Weimeng Zhu (Wuppertal, Germany), Adrian Becker (Leverkusen, German...