US Patent Issued to Valeo Schalter und Sensoren on May 19 for "Object avoidance communication system for vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,155, issued on May 19, was assigned to Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH (Germany).

"Object avoidance communication system for vehicles" was invented by Xinhua Xiao (San Mateo, Calif.) and Peter Groth (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for assisting a vehicle in avoiding an object in a roadway and communicating associated information to trailing vehicles. Image data is sensed by a vehicle image sensor regarding a roadway. A computing system detects an object in the roadway based on the first image data. Feature extraction is performed to extract relevant features of the object, which is fed to an obje...