US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 27 for "Systems and methods for detecting obstacles in the vicinity of power cables" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,267, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for detecting obstacles in the vicinity of power cables" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Brendan Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), Michael John Harmon (Northville, Mich.) and Vyas Shenoy (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for detecting obstacles in the vicinity of power cables. In an example method, a first end of a power cable may be detected to be connected to a vehicle. A first trajectory of the power cable may then be determined via a pl...