ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,839, issued on March 11.
"Driving assistance method and system" was invented by Joseph E. Kovarik (Englewood, Colo.) and James J. Kovarik (Englewood, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving assistance system and method is provided that includes a plurality of magnetic markers having a magnet component configured to generate a magnetic field on a road surface, together with a pavement marking material that includes a RFID tag that is readable by a RFID tag reader. The pavement marking material includes encoded information that is conveyed to a vehicle's on-board sensing system that is adapted to obtain data through wireless co...