ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,603, issued on July 15, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Combined sensor arrangement" was invented by Malcolm Jonathan Bacon (Ongar, Great Britain), Michael Robert Garrard (Chelmsford, Great Britain), Evan Fisher (Detroit), Thomas Dressing (Livonia, Mich.) and Yang Wang (Canton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing apparatus includes two or more sensor arrangements, a housing which is configured to house the two or more sensor arrangements, a first sensor arrangement which is configured to sense a first property, a second sensor arrangement which is configured to sense a second property, and ...