US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 21 for "Systems and methods for managing occupant interaction using depth information" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,941, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for managing occupant interaction using depth information" was invented by Ryan Joseph Gorski (Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.), John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.) and Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing occupant interaction with components of a vehicle includes generating, via a time-of-flight sensor, a point cloud representing a compartment of the vehicle, the point cloud including three-dimensional positional information about the compartment. The method further includ...