US Patent Issued on April 14 for "Systems and methods for monitoring users exiting a vehicle" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,932, issued on April 14.

"Systems and methods for monitoring users exiting a vehicle" was invented by Somak Datta Gupta (Novi, Mich.), Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, Mich.) and Oliver Lei (Windsor, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle including a detection unit and a processor is disclosed. The detection unit may be configured to detect a presence of a user in the vehicle and in proximity to the vehicle. The processor may be configured to obtain inputs from the detection unit and determine that a predefined condition may be met based on the inputs. The processor may be further configured to generate a virtual zone around...