US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 16 for "Intrusion-based collision avoidance" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,690, issued on June 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Intrusion-based collision avoidance" was invented by Francis E. Fearon (Palo Alto, Calif.), Matthew J. Brown (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Julia Pralle (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the disclosure pertain intrusion-based collision avoidance. A bounding box can be generated to capture the size and position of an object in a traffic lane comprising a left lane line and a right lane line. A metric is computed based on one or more vertices of the bounding box that capture the extent to which the object intrudes on the lane. The ...