ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,757, issued on Dec. 23.
"Autonomous vehicle safety system and method" was invented by David Crinklaw (Kingsburg, Calif.), Chase Schapansky (Fresno, Calif.) and Gary Thompson (Sanger, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle safety system, a method of operating the same and an autonomous vehicle equipped with the autonomous vehicle safety system. An autonomous vehicle Bluetooth receiver is connected in a signal transmitting fashion to the engine control unit of an autonomous vehicle. Upon receiving a signal from a remote Bluetooth transmitter at a predefined proximity distance between the transmitter and the receive...