ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,114, issued on April 22, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle lane boundary detection" was invented by Christian Wegner (Grosse Ile, Mich.), Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, Mich.), Bradford Scott Bondy (St. Clair Shores, Mich.) and Muhannad Hamdan (Canton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining lane information. A memory storing instructions executable by a processor includes instructions to receive forward image data of a roadway from a forward-facing camera of a vehicle, determine visible lane boundaries of the driving lane based on lane marking features in the forward image...