ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,588, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Light-based occupant detection for airbag deployment" was invented by Timo Rehfeld (Cologne, Germany), Alexander Barth (Wermelskirchen, Germany) and Xuebing Zhang (Wuppertal, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting occupants of a vehicle includes memory hardware configured to store instructions and processor hardware configured to execute the instructions. The instructions include, based on an outcome of a first set of criteria, associating image data with a first set of scores. The first set of scores includes a first sc...