US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on April 22 for "Vulnerable road user's adversarial behavior recognition" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,786, issued on April 22, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vulnerable road user's adversarial behavior recognition" was invented by Alaa M. Khamis (Courtice, Canada) and Wei Tong (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for identifying adversarial behavior directed to an autonomous vehicle includes a pedestrian detection system in communication with a vehicle controller adapted to identify a pedestrian within proximity of the autonomous vehicle, track the pedestrian, determine if the pedestrian is intending to cross in front of the autonomous vehicle, and if the pedestrian tracking system dete...