US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Nov. 18 for "System and method for providing driving assistance to safely overtake a vehicle" (Indian, American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,968, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"System and method for providing driving assistance to safely overtake a vehicle" was invented by Manish Gupta (Karnataka, India), Ramesha Chelur Ramachandra Sastry (Karnataka, India), Pramod Chintalapoodi (Chicago) and Sho Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of a system and method to provide driving assistance to safely overtake a vehicle are disclosed herein. In accordance with an embodiment, an electronic control unit used in a first vehicle is configured to detect a second vehicle in front of the first vehicle. A first position associated w...