US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Nov. 11 for "Large animal detection and intervention in a vehicle" (California, Massachusetts, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,422, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Large animal detection and intervention in a vehicle" was invented by Alireza Rahimpour (Palo Alto, Calif.), Navid Fallahinia (Watertown, Mass.), Devesh Upadhyay (Canton, Mich.) and Justin Miller (Berkley, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A far-infrared camera mounted in a vehicle generates an image frame. When an image of a large animal is identified in the image frame, a pixel intensity of the large animal image is determined. An estimated distance to the large animal from the far-infrared camera based on the pixel intensity is determined. ...