US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Aug. 19 for "Responses to vulnerable road user's adversarial behavior" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,281, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Responses to vulnerable road user's adversarial behavior" was invented by Alaa M. Khamis (Courtice, Canada), Wei Tong (Troy, Mich.) and Robert Dale Burns (Lake Orion, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for responding to adversarial behavior within an autonomous vehicle includes a pedestrian detection system in communication with a vehicle controller and an adversarial intent algorithm adapted to determine a risk level of adversarial behavior from at least one pedestrian within proximity of the autonomous vehicle, the vehicle controller ...