US Patent Issued to Aptiv Technologies on March 4 for "Tracking different sections of articulated vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,964, issued on March 4, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Tracking different sections of articulated vehicles" was invented by Susan Yu-Ping Chen (Los Angeles) and Jan K. Schiffmann (Newbury Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques and systems related to tracking different sections of articulated vehicles. A vehicle uses a radar system that can discern between unarticulated vehicles and articulated vehicles, which by definition have multiple sections that can pivot in different directions for turning or closely following a curve. The radar system obtains detectio...