ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,895, issued on July 1.

"Haptic enabled smart helmet for enhanced safety" was invented by Armaan Jain (Potomac, Md.), Akshay Jilla (Clarksburg, Md.), Zaheen Ahmed (Clarksburg, Md.) and Shrey Agarwal (Clarksburg, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to an apparatus comprising a sensing module comprising an ultrasonic sensor; a haptic module comprising a vibratory actuator; a positioning module comprising a gyroscope; an actuator motor, and a processor. The processor is configured to detect a position and an orientation of a body part of a user using the positioning module, dynamically align the ultrasonic sensing module...