US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 4 for "System and method for preventing interactions between vehicle and moving object" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,482, issued on March 4, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"System and method for preventing interactions between vehicle and moving object" was invented by Subharthi Banerjee (Dearborn, Mich.) and Jayanthi Rao (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods for preventing doored interactions between a vehicle and moving object. According to one or more embodiments, a method for a vehicle includes detecting that a moving object is approaching the vehicle when the vehicle is stationary, detect that a moving object is approaching the vehicle...