ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,625, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"System and method for providing driver assistance" was invented by Arnaud Brun (Lyons, France) and Fanette Sevenier (Courzieu, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system is provided. The computer system comprises a processor device configured to receive map data representing characteristics of a road ahead of a vehicle, the vehicle having an actual vehicle width and an actual vehicle length; determine a maximum width of the vehicle based on at least the actual vehicle width and the map data; and provide visual information representing the ma...