US Patent Issued to Woven By Toyota on Nov. 11 for "Mitigating an effect of a collision between a vehicle and an obstacle" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,396, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Woven By Toyota Inc. (Tokyo).

"Mitigating an effect of a collision between a vehicle and an obstacle" was invented by Manuel Ludwig Kuehner (Mountain View, Calif.), Hiroshi Yasuda (San Francisco) and Julia I. Pralle (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for mitigating an effect of a collision between a vehicle and an obstacle can include a processor and a memory. The memory can store a seat occupancy determination module and a set of modules including a candidate response determination module, a candidate response evaluation module, and a controller module. The seat occupan...