US Patent Issued to MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates on Nov. 18 for "Unobtrusive driving assistance method and system for a vehicle to avoid hazards" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,712, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Inc. (Brampton, Canada).

"Unobtrusive driving assistance method and system for a vehicle to avoid hazards" was invented by Mingfeng Zhang (Mississauga, Canada), Ho-Kong Ng (Thornhill, Canada) and Piotr Jasiobedzki (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a driving assistance method and system for a mobile vehicle to avoid hazards in its environment. This system can detect hazards in a vehicle's surroundings and unobtrusively adjust its driving module's driving commands when necessary to avoid hazards. The system is co...