ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,578, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Splash detection using radar" was invented by Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, Mich.), Robert Schroeter (Livonia, Mich.), Jake Schwartz (Dearborn, Mich.) and Aaron L. Mills (Ann Arbor, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection system for a target vehicle includes a camera capturing images of a region external to the target vehicle, a RADAR module that scans the region to detect a depth of a splash event in the region, an actuator configured to operate in response to a response signal and control circuitry configured to determine a distanc...