ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,150, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Three-dimensional parking assist" was invented by Bradford S. Bondy (St. Clair Shores, Mich.), Mahmoud Y. Ghannam (Canton, Mich.), Muhannad Hamdan (Canton, Mich.) and Christian Wegner (Grosse Ile, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing a three-dimensional (3-D) parking assist feature include receiving sensor data from a plurality of different sensors with respect to a 3-D volume surrounding a top side of a vehicle, lateral sides of the vehicle, and at least one longitudinal end side of the vehicle, determining a 3-D ...