US Patent Issued to Valeo Schalter und Sensoren on Aug. 12 for "Method for measuring a lateral surroundings of a vehicle, measuring apparatus, and vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,359, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

"Method for measuring a lateral surroundings of a vehicle, measuring apparatus, and vehicle" was invented by Nicolas Jecker (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for measuring lateral surroundings of a vehicle provided with a lateral ultrasonic transceiver is disclosed. The method involves actuating the ultrasonic transceiver at at least two transmission and reception positions along a lateral direction for the purpose of transmitting a respective transmission signal in a transverse direction acro...