ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,079, issued on July 8, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Detection and avoidance of car dooring of cyclists" was invented by Oswaldo Perez Barrera (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Anders Lennartsson (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods are presented regarding utilizing technology onboard a vehicle to minimize road traffic accidents between cyclists and vehicles. A vehicle can be operating in any of an autonomous, partially autonomous, or non-autonomous manner. By utilizing onboard technology/artificial intelligence, the vehicle can detect a cyclist navigating a street proximate to...