ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,208, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).
"Collision imminent detection" was invented by Juan Fasola (San Francisco), Eugene Lo (Redwood City, Calif.), Xiaoyu Zhou (San Francisco) and Shreyans Kushwaha (Burlingame, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for collision imminent detection are provided. A method includes collecting sensor data generated by one or more sensors of a vehicle; detecting, by a fallback control system of the vehicle based on the sensor data, an imminent collision between the vehicle and an object in an environment of the vehicle using a first process dif...