US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 23 for "Vulnerable road user's adversarial behavior opportunity and capability" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,839, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vulnerable road user's adversarial behavior opportunity and capability" was invented by Alaa M. Khamis (Courtice, Canada), Wei Tong (Troy, Mich.) and Upali P. Mudalige (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining opportunity and capability for identified adversarial behavior within an autonomous vehicle, comprising a pedestrian detection system, a vehicle controller and an adversarial intent algorithm adapted to determine a risk level of adversarial behavior from at least one pedestrian within proximity of the ...