ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,279, issued on June 3, was assigned to Hyundai Mobis Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Pedestrian collision prevention system and method for vehicle" was invented by Hyung Myung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pedestrian collision prevention system of a vehicle including a detection unit to detect one or both of a fixed object and a pedestrian located in a vicinity of the vehicle; a prediction unit to predict a collision possibility with the pedestrian based on one or both of the fixed object and the pedestrian detected by the detection unit; and a control unit to set a detection sensitivity based on the coll...