US Patent Issued to AMPERE, NISSAN MOTOR on Feb. 24 for "Method for activating an obstacle avoidance system for a motor vehicle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,093, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Kanagawa-ku, Japan).

"Method for activating an obstacle avoidance system for a motor vehicle" was invented by Geoffrey Bruno (Issy les Moulineaux, France), Clement Coste (Nimes, France), Anh-Lam Do (Antony, France), Henri Manuel Filipe (Paris), Marouane Lehim (Chaville, France) and Khoa Duc Nguyen (Sartrouville, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method triggers an obstacle avoidance system. The method includes detecting at least one object forming a potential obstacle, determining the time remaining until the motor ve...