ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,949, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBH (Germany).

"Systems and methods for person classification and gesture recognition" was invented by Jagdish Bhanushali (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving image data that includes at least two images of an environment associated with a vehicle, identifying at least one person of interest in the image data, and generating, using a pose estimation model and the image data, a representation of the person of interest. The method also includes determining at least one characteristic associated with the at least two images of the i...