US Patent Issued to Aptiv Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Method and system for detecting a type of seat occupancy" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,561, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Method and system for detecting a type of seat occupancy" was invented by Klaus Friedrichs (Dortmund, Germany), Monika Heift (Schwelm, Germany), Thomas Kurbiel (Essen, Germany), Xuebing Zhang (Wuppertal, Germany), Amil George (Erkrath, Germany) and Markus Buehren (Erkrath, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer implemented method for detecting a type of seat occupancy, comprising capturing, by means of an imaging device, an image of a seat, the image comprising depth data and intensity data, performing, by means of a processor device, a...