US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 16 for "Systems and methods to contextually alert a driver of identified objects in a-pillar blind zones" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,535, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Systems and methods to contextually alert a driver of identified objects in a-pillar blind zones" was invented by Steffen P Lindenthal (Oshawa, Canada) and Akram M Abdel-Rahman (Ajax, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for initiating an alert in a vehicle. A method includes: receiving sensor data associated with an environment of the vehicle; determining at least one road user based on the sensor data; determining at least one blind spot area associated with a pillar of the vehicle and the road scenario; deter...