ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,096, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Vision Automobile Electronics Industrial Co. Ltd. (Tainan, Taiwan).

"Ultrasonic radar system" was invented by Tien-Bou Wan (Tainan, Taiwan), Chung-Hsiao Lo (Tainan, Taiwan), Chien-Liang Pan (Tainan, Taiwan), An-Hun Cheng (Tainan, Taiwan) and Chia-Hung Wu (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radar system includes an ultrasonic radar unit and a warning device. The ultrasonic radar unit is configured to be detachably mounted on a vehicle, and is configured to output a pairing signal when a pairing function is activated and output a warning signal upon detecting an object that is within...