ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,883, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).
"System and method for campsite monitoring using vehicle sensors" was invented by Kiran Ram Bharwani (San Ramon, Calif.) and Jeffrey Mitsuo Ota (Morgan Hill, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for monitoring a predetermined area for animals. One or more sensors of a vehicle are configured to detect a presence of an object and processing circuitry is configured to detect an object approaching the predetermined area. The processing circuitry is further configured to determine that the detected object is an animal and f...