US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 17 for "Obstacle avoidance for vehicle" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,633, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Obstacle avoidance for vehicle" was invented by Abhishek Sharma (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Michael Hafner (San Carlos, Calif.), Mohit Srinivasan (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Mrdjan J. Jankovic (Birmingham, Mich.), Erol Dogan Sumer (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Alexander Jaeckel (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Aakar Mehra (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive sensor data indicating an obstacle, formulate a control barrier function for a vehicle an...