ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,234, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Detection system for a vehicle" was invented by Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, Mich.), John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.), Vivekanandh Elangovan (Canton, Mich.) and Nicholas Colella (Grosse Ile, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a plurality of RADAR modules arranged at a common side of a plurality of sides of the vehicle and configured to detect an obstruction in a region exterior to the vehicle. A first RADAR module is on a left portion of the common side and has a first field of view. A second RADAR module is on a ...