ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,420, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Target downselection" was invented by Shiva Chaitanya Vishwakarma Chandrachary (Toronto) and Martin Miller (Sunnyside, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Respective driver assist features that are currently active in a vehicle are identified, and parameters are obtained for determining respective sets of target objects for the driver assist features. The parameters of a first one of the driver assist features are applied to output a first target set of one or more targets selected from a set of candidate objects for the first one of the driver a...