ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,559, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Radar-based estimation of the height of an object" was invented by Jens Westerhoff (Bochum, Germany), Shan Zhang (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Yihang Zhang (Calabasas, Calif.) and Narbik Manukian (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes systems and techniques for determining a height of an object in a surrounding of a vehicle. In a first aspect, the systems and techniques include acquiring radar data for each of a plurality of vertically distributed antenna elements of a radar antenna. In additional aspects, the systems a...