ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,657, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Systems and methods for predicting post-event vehicle occupant injury" was invented by Chin-hsu Lin (Troy, Mich.), Susan H. Owen (Bloomfield, Mich.), Sean Taylor Coughlin (Shelby Township, Mich.), Alok Warey (Novi, Mich.) and Mitesh Lalwala (Troy, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle event database includes simulation-based vehicle event metadata associated with a vehicle architecture. The metadata is generated by determining vehicle event pulses, applying the vehicle event pulses to a vehicle simulation model, collecting injury data a...