US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Phantom objects in sensor data" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,695, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Phantom objects in sensor data" was invented by Christopher Pontisakos (Allen Park, Mich.), Rajiv Sithiravel (Scarborough, Canada), Alex Maurice Miller (Canton, Mich.) and Yuhao Liu (Canton, 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 range data from a ranging sensor of a vehicle, the range data including a stationary object and an apparent moving object; determine that a path of the apparent moving object is within a threshold distance ...