US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Feb. 18 for "Adaptive perception by vehicle sensors" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,201, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Adaptive perception by vehicle sensors" was invented by Jianbo Lu (Northville, Mich.), Timothy Mark Feldkamp (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Sanghyun Hong (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ling Zhu (Canton, Mich.) and Mitch McConnell (Temperance, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a computer including a processor and a memory. The memory storing instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to determine a perception zone of interest, via a trained perception model, based on at least one of a vehicle parameter or planning data, wherei...