US Patent Issued to GENTEX on April 14 for "System, device, and methods for detecting and obtaining information on objects in a vehicle" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,796, issued on April 14, was assigned to GENTEX Corp. (Zeeland, Mich.).

"System, device, and methods for detecting and obtaining information on objects in a vehicle" was invented by Yuval Gronau (Ramat Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods are provided for detecting occupancy state in a vehicle including analyzing data of the interior passenger compartment to yield at least one probability of a current occupancy state of the vehicle and further analyzing additional data of the interior passenger compartment to yield predicted probabilities of the occupancy state of the vehicle, wherein each probability o...