US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on July 8 for "Roadside infrastructure detection, localization, and monitoring" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,181, issued on July 8, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Roadside infrastructure detection, localization, and monitoring" was invented by Ryan E. Hanson (Livonia, Mich.), Vivekanandh Elangovan (Canton, Mich.) and John R. Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Surface penetrating radar interrogates a region adjacent a pathway of the vehicle in response to activation by a user. An object detection system which is responsive to the radar transceiver is configured to recognize one or more spatial signatures of one or more detected objects in the region. A controller coupled to the radar t...