US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Sept. 8 for "Blind zone object detection" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,412, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Blind zone object detection" was invented by Christopher G. Woischwill (Bowmanville, Canada), Utkarsh Saini (Pickering, Canada), Patrick G. G. DiGioacchino (Niagara Falls, Canada) and Jiri Kral (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object detection system configured for detecting objects within a front blind zone of a vehicle. The object detection system may be configured for determining positional coordinates for a plurality of candidate objects forward of a front fascia of the vehicle, determining a visibility curve for a driver of the ...