ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,751, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Object detection" was invented by David Michael Herman (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Akshay Vaidya (Canton, Mich.), Larry Sanders (Monroe, Mich.) and Binduhasini Sairamesh (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer that includes a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions executable by the processor can activate a plurality of light sources in an alternating pattern at an illumination frequency and acquire image data depicting light reflected from an object at a timing corresponding to the alternating pattern at the i...