US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Feb. 25 for "Calibration of time to collision threshold in low light conditions" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,786, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Calibration of time to collision threshold in low light conditions" was invented by Mohammad Naserian (Windsor, Canada) and Allan Kenneth Lewis (Windsor, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of modifying a time to collision threshold includes receiving data and images of an object from image capturing devices and non-visual sensors within an automobile, from infrastructure cameras, and from image capturing devices within other automobiles, determining ambient light levels and color of the object, comparing ambient light levels to a pre-d...