ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,518, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Multi-stage occupant awareness for expected critical actions at respective distances based on favorability and feasibility metrics" was invented by Sycamore Zhang (Shanghai), Jimmy Qi (Shanghai) and Zhengyu Xing (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance system of a host vehicle is disclosed. The driving assistance system includes: a telematics module configured to receive messages from one or more network devices separate from the host vehicle; a driving assistance module configured to receive on-board sensor data; and an aware...