US Patent Issued to VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN on March 11 for "Method for determining a functional status of an ultrasonic sensor by means of a transfer function of the ultrasonic sensor, ultrasonic sensor device and motor vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,106, issued on March 11, was assigned to VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBH (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

"Method for determining a functional status of an ultrasonic sensor by means of a transfer function of the ultrasonic sensor, ultrasonic sensor device and motor vehicle" was invented by Fabian Haag (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for determining a functional status of an ultrasonic sensor (5a) of an ultrasonic sensor device (5) for a motor vehicle (1), which is designed to emit an ultrasonic signal (8) into an environment (4) of the motor vehicle (1) and/or to rece...