US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 20 for "Systems and methods for deweighting veering margins based on crossing time" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,476, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Systems and methods for deweighting veering margins based on crossing time" was invented by Alice Kassar (Detroit).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document discloses system, method, and computer program product embodiments for operating a vehicle. For example, the method includes: obtaining a vehicle trajectory for the vehicle and a possible object trajectory for a moving object; analyzing the vehicle trajectory and the possible object trajectory to identify a time interval in which a footprint of the vehicle overlaps laterally with a footprint...