ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,389, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle space morphing" was invented by Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, Mich.) and John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining spatial availability for a compartment of a vehicle includes generating, via at least one time-of-flight sensor, a first point cloud representing the compartment of the vehicle, the first point cloud including three-dimensional positional information of the compartment. The method further includes calculating, via processing circuitry in communication with the at least o...