US Patent Issued on Aug. 11 for "Systems and methods for monitoring an object in proximity to a vehicle" (Michigan, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,298, issued on Aug. 11.

"Systems and methods for monitoring an object in proximity to a vehicle" was invented by Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.) and Brendan Diamond (Naples, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle including a sensor unit and a processor is disclosed. The sensor unit may be configured to capture sensor inputs associated with an object to be monitored in proximity to the vehicle. The processor may be configured to obtain user inputs indicating the object to be monitored, and obtain the sensor inputs from the sensor unit responsive to obtaining the user inputs. The processor may further monitor an object state based ...