ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,233, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to GM CRUISE HOLDINGS LLC (San Francisco).
"Radar system for generating an on-demand distributed aperture by mechanical articulation" was invented by Devin Cass (San Francisco), Jack Stepanian (San Francisco) and Daniel Flores Tapia (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for generating an on-demand distributed aperture by mechanical articulation. In some aspects, a process can include steps for determining a location of an autonomous vehicle, determining whether a maneuver requires long range detections or medium range detections based on the location of th...