US Patent Issued to Nissan North America on Sept. 1 for "Proactive risk mitigation with generalized virtual vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,661, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Proactive risk mitigation with generalized virtual vehicles" was invented by Qizhan Tam (San Jose, Calif.), Christopher Ostafew (Mountain View, Calif.), Manh Huynh (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Huiching Chen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proactively mitigating risk to a vehicle traversing a vehicle transportation network includes identifying a location for a virtual vehicle. The virtual vehicle is added to a world object model maintained with respect to the vehicle. A trajectory is predicted for the virtual vehicle. The vehicle is auton...