US Patent Issued on Nov. 4 for "Road safety hotspot location identification and reporting system and method" (Irish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,673, issued on Nov. 4.

"Road safety hotspot location identification and reporting system and method" was invented by Emmett Murphy (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for identifying and reporting road safety hotspot locations. The approach, for example, involves receiving a Vulnerability State Message from at least one Road User Device associated with a Road User. The Vulnerability State Message includes positional data and vulnerability state factor data, which may indicate an elevated road safety risk. This data is collated with other Vulnerability State data received from other Road User Devices a...