US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on July 15 for "Pedestrian density and proximity recognition with vehicle and mobile device countermeasures" (Michigan, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,830, issued on July 15, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Pedestrian density and proximity recognition with vehicle and mobile device countermeasures" was invented by Kurt Chamberlin (Bristol, R.I.), Russell A. Patenaude (Macomb Township, Mich.), Matthew E. Gilbert-Eyres (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Eric T. Hosey (Royal Oak, Mich.) and Noah Stone (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle has been proposed that is equipped with a processing system coupled to different sensors that may anticipate and mitigate risks leading to vehicle-pedestrian incidents. In some aspects, the processing...