US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on March 31 for "Vehicle systems and methods for pedestrian road crossing predictions" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,737, issued on March 31, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle systems and methods for pedestrian road crossing predictions" was invented by Oded Bialer (Petach Tikva, Israel) and Roy Uziel (Givatayim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system includes at least one sensor configured to capture one or more images of a pedestrian positioned near a road, and a control module in communication with the at least one sensor. The control module is configured to determine one or more characteristics associated with the pedestrian positioned near to the road based on the one or more captured imag...