US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 21 for "Object detection using reflective surfaces" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,532, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Object detection using reflective surfaces" was invented by Marcos Paul Gerardo Castro (San Francisco), Aniruddh Ravindran (Mountain View, Calif.) and Mishel Johns (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tracking an object included in a reflective surface by detecting the reflective surface included in one or more images included in a plurality of images by determining a location of the reflective surface in pixel coordinates and tracking the location of the reflective surface in the plurality of images. Real world locations of the obje...