ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,237, issued on July 1, was assigned to NISSAN NORTH AMERICA INC. (Franklin, Tenn.).
"Virtual hazard inference system" was invented by Qizhan Tam (Stanford, Calif.) and Christopher Ostafew (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a vehicle engine, a steering control unit, an on-board sensor network and a virtual hazard inference system. The vehicle engine generates a torque output of the vehicle. The steering control unit controls a steering angle of the vehicle. The on-board sensor network is programmed to detect external objects within a detection zone. The virtual hazard inference system has a process...