ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,323, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Methods and systems for determining one or more characteristics inside a cabin of a vehicle" was invented by Timo Rehfeld (Cologne, Germany) and Lukas Hahn (Wuppertal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described that implement determining one or more characteristics of the interior of a vehicle that lead to a reliable detection or observation of objects even if the direct line of sight between the objects and the camera is occluded. In an aspect, a computer implemented method includes the following operations car...