ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,629, issued on July 7, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Safety device and method for avoidance of dooring injuries" was invented by Juergen D. Felleisen (Baden-Baden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety device includes a processor configured to detect from sensor data representing a vehicle occupant, whether the vehicle occupant looks for an oncoming road participant or obstacle; operate according to a first operational mode when the processor detects that the vehicle occupant looks for an oncoming road participant or obstacle; and operate according to a second operational mode when the processor detects...