US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Aug. 18 for "Systems and methods for preventing side collisions" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,331, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Systems and methods for preventing side collisions" was invented by Mahdokht Ezati (Pickering, Canada), Avesta Goodarzi (Whitby, Canada) and Hojjat Izadi (Richmond Hill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steering system for a vehicle includes a steering input device configured to control a steering angle, a gear selector, front wheels positioned at a road wheel angle, and a plurality of sensors. A processing module is configured to determine one or more distances between the vehicle and one or more obstacles in response to the plurality of s...