ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,869, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Joyson Safety Systems Acquisition LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.) and Joyson Safety Systems Japan G.K. (Shiga, Japan).

"Systems and methods for driver warnings upon child identification and bypass options based on gesture and posture detection" was invented by Katsuji Kuno (Echigawa, Japan), Babak Bakhtiar (Richmond Hill, Canada) and Joshua Ramaglia (Broken Arrow, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passenger protection system for a vehicle includes a vehicle sensor control system receiving input data from a plurality of vehicle sensors and from image data that corresponds to gestures presented by...