US Patent Issued to Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany on March 11 for "Method for identifying parking spaces by means of ultrasonic sensors" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,107, issued on March 11, was assigned to Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for identifying parking spaces by means of ultrasonic sensors" was invented by Wassim Suleiman (Kriftel, Germany), Abhishek Kekud (Frankfurt a. Main, Germany) and Christopher Brown (Seligenstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for identifying parking spaces, including emitting an ultrasonic signal and receiving a reflected signal; and providing a grid which of a region having a plurality of cells. Each cell is assigned to a partial region of the region surrounding the vehicle ...