US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM Auto on Sept. 2 for "Vehicle collision avoidance method and system" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,899, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Auto Ltd. (Great Britain).

"Vehicle collision avoidance method and system" was invented by Fabio Pantano-De-Luca (Dachau, Germany) and Joseph Frikken (Marysville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An on-board system of a vehicle scans for target entities in at least one lane to a side of the vehicle and determines position and state of motion of detected target entities. From a state of the vehicle, an intention is inferred of a driver to move the vehicle into one of the at least one lane. If the on-board system detects a risk of collision between a target entity and the vehicle, th...