US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 22 for "Adaptive side blind zone alert system and method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,356, issued on July 22, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Adaptive side blind zone alert system and method" was invented by Wei Tong (Troy, Mich.), Xiaofeng Frank Song (Novi, Mich.), Shige Wang (Northville, Mich.), Shuqing Zeng (Sterling Heights, Mich.) and Gopichand Movva (Lake Orion, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic side blind zone method includes determining that a host vehicle is approaching a first lane that is nonparallel to a second lane. The host vehicle is moving in the second lane. The method further includes activating an adaptive side blind zone alert system of the host vehicle ...