ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,637, issued on July 29.
"Wearable approaching object detection with dynamic motion compensation" was invented by Cavon M Hajimiri (La Canada Flintridge, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable system for pedestrians/users is adapted to detect threats posed by, for example, approaching vehicles, bikers, and issue an alert. The wearable system may include an inertial measurement unit to measure the gait of the pedestrian and actively adjust alert generation thresholds to account for the noisy and large movements of the gait using present and past IMU data. The thresholds can be raised during active phases of the gait, and lowe...