US Patent Issued to Google on April 8 for "Smart-device-based radar system for vehicle operations" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,898, issued on April 8, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Smart-device-based radar system for vehicle operations" was invented by Chih Yu Chen (MiaoLi, Taiwan), YungSheng Chang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Ivan Poupyrev (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatuses are described that implement a smart-device-based radar system capable of determining characteristics of objects external to a vehicle, occupants within a vehicle, and objects proximal to an open-air vehicle. In particular, the system enables a smart device to perform many vehicle operations such as collision avoidance, occupant de...