US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN on March 18 for "Detecting and determining relevant variables of an object by means of ultrasonic sensors" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,595, issued on March 18, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Detecting and determining relevant variables of an object by means of ultrasonic sensors" was invented by Alex Tarasow (Braunschweig, Germany) and Daniel Gohlke (Wasbuttel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method and a device for determining relevant variables of an object in the environment of a motor vehicle by means of at least one ultrasonic, the method comprising: acquiring a measurement series of real sensor values for the at least one ultrasonic sensor, which sensor values represent the shortest distance between the...