US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on March 18 for "Surround view vehicle egress assistance" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,702, issued on March 18, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Surround view vehicle egress assistance" was invented by Gurmeet S. Sidhu (Mississauga, Canada), Akram M. Abdel-Rahman (Ajax, Canada), Mansoor Alghooneh (Richmond Hill, Canada), Russell A Patenaude (Macomb Township, Mich.) and Patrick G. G. DiGioacchino (Niagara Falls, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for surround view egress assistance that includes detecting, by a sensor in a vehicle, an obstacle in a swing path of a vehicle door. The method includes predicting, based on a geometrical analysis, one or more potential co...