US Patent Issued to Continental Autonomous Mobility US on May 27 for "Flash LADAR collision avoidance system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,054, issued on May 27, was assigned to Continental Autonomous Mobility US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Flash LADAR collision avoidance system" was invented by Patrick Gilliland (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Roger Stettner (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Laurent Heuhebaert (Santa Paula, Calif.) and Barton M Goldstein (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular collision avoidance system comprising a system controller, pulsed laser transmitter, a number of independent ladar sensor units, a cabling infrastructure, internal memory, a scene processor, and a data communications port is presented herein. The described invention is ...