US Patent Issued to Valeo Schalter und Sensoren on Sept. 23 for "Driver assistance for a motor vehicle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,838, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH (Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany).

"Driver assistance for a motor vehicle" was invented by Brouk Wedajo (Bobigny, France) and Thomas Heitzmann (Bobigny, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver-assistance method for a motor vehicle of interest, in which the vehicle of interest detects the third-party vehicles which are present at an initial instant in its environment is disclosed. During a first prediction cycle, an order of priority is assigned to the third-party vehicles which are detected at the initial instant and to the vehicle of interest, correspond...