US Patent Issued to Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany on Nov. 4 for "Method for classifying heights of objects by means of ultrasonic sensor technology" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,218, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Continental Autonomous Mobility Germany GmbH (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Method for classifying heights of objects by means of ultrasonic sensor technology" was invented by Wassim Suleiman (Kriftel, Germany), Christopher Brown (Seligenstadt, Germany) and Ahmed Hamdy Gad (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for classifying the height of an object by means of at least one ultrasonic sensor of a vehicle is disclosed. The method includes emitting an ultrasonic signal by the ultrasonic sensor of the vehicle in a transmission cycle; and performing a reception cycle, wherein t...