US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 13 for "Vehicle path adjustment with control barrier function" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,845, issued on May 13, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle path adjustment with control barrier function" was invented by Michael Hafner (San Carlos, Calif.), Mohit Srinivasan (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Abhishek Sharma (West Bloomfield, 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 system for detecting a road surface includes a computer programmed to determine a virtual boundary for a vehicle body based on a shape of the vehicle body, upon identifying an object, t...