US Patent Issued to Valeo Schalter und Sensoren on Oct. 27 for "Parking safety prediction system for vehicles" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,968, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH (Germany).

"Parking safety prediction system for vehicles" was invented by Jagdish Bhanushali (Troy, Mich.) and Thomas Heitzmann (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for assisting a vehicle in predicting the safety of an environment about a vehicle. Image data is sensed by a vehicle image sensor regarding the environment about the vehicle. The system detects one or more first objects surrounding the vehicle based on the images received from the image sensors. An object classification model is performed on the images to determine a clas...