US Patent Issued to ROBERT BOSCH on Nov. 11 for "Ultrasonic system of a vehicle for determining the condition of the roadway" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,032, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Ultrasonic system of a vehicle for determining the condition of the roadway" was invented by Michael Schumann (Stuttgart, Germany), Simon Weissenmayer (Flein, Germany), Markus Mayer (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany) and Timo Koenig (Unterheinriet, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic system of a vehicle. The ultrasonic system includes: at least one ultrasonic sensor for ascertaining a distance of objects from the vehicle by comparing an emitted signal and a reflected echo, and a calculation apparatus for evaluating a measured signal of t...