ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,239, issued on May 6, was assigned to Automotive Research & Testing Center (Changhua County, Taiwan).

"System and method with SOTIF scene collection and self-update mechanism" was invented by Chien-An Chen (Changhua County, Taiwan) and Chih-Wei Chuang (Changhua County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method with a SOTIF scene collection and a self-update mechanism, which is applied to a vehicle, includes a situation judging step, a scene collecting step, a modifying step, a verifying step, and an updating step. As the situation judging step judges that the sensing control dataset belongs to the accident scene dataset, the sen...