US Patent Issued to Aptiv Technologies on May 6 for "Method and device for determining an angle of a target object" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,496, issued on May 6, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Method and device for determining an angle of a target object" was invented by Wolfgang Doerr (Wiehl, Germany), Uri Iurgel (Wuppertal, Germany) and Stephanie Lessmann (Erkrath, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for estimating an angle of an object with respect to a vehicle. A transformation of reflected radar signals is calculated, wherein the result of the transformation depends on a range with respect to the vehicle. A long beam vector is generated for respective range bins provided by the transformation by rearrangin...