US Patent Issued to Nissan North America on April 21 for "Virtual vehicle for intersection edging and virtual stop lines" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,168, issued on April 21, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Virtual vehicle for intersection edging and virtual stop lines" was invented by Derek Lau (San Francisco) and Christopher Ostafew (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least one virtual road user is generated, wherein a position of a respective virtual road user of the at least one virtual road user corresponds to a border of a range of a sensor of a host vehicle approaching an intersection of a vehicle transportation network. A most relevant virtual road user of the at least one virtual road user is determined, the most relevan...