ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,400, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Object detection in a vehicle" was invented by Alessandro Cennamo (Wuppertal, Germany) and Florian Kaestner (Bochum, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and techniques directed at object detection in a vehicle. In aspects, techniques include capturing current radar image data. The current radar image data includes at least one current point cloud. The current point cloud includes at least one current object point being related to an object, and each current object point includes spatial information r...