US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on June 10 for "Vision enhanced automatic occupant sensing for airbag deployment" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,373, issued on June 10, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vision enhanced automatic occupant sensing for airbag deployment" was invented by Scott D Thomas (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airbag deployment system including a memory configured to store a default weight/pressure threshold value, a weight/pressure sensor configured for detecting a weight/pressure on a vehicle seat surface, a remote sensor for detecting a presence of a child restraint seat installed at a vehicle seat, wherein, the remote sensor can detect the presence or lack of presence of a child restraint seat on a vehicle s...