US Patent Issued to ZF Friedrichshafen on Dec. 30 for "Locating vehicles by means of radar reflectors" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,651, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Locating vehicles by means of radar reflectors" was invented by Steffen Biel (Friedrichshafen, Germany) and Stefan Traub (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an arrangement with a data processing device and a second vehicle (103), which comprises at least one radar sensor (107). The data processing device is designed to recognize at least one radar reflector (105) which is attached to a first vehicle (101), in a signal of the at least one radar sensor (107). The data processing device is designed to ...