US Patent Issued to APPLIED INVENTION on Dec. 9 for "Communication between autonomous vehicle and external observers" (California, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,814, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to APPLIED INVENTION LLC (Burbank, Calif.).

"Communication between autonomous vehicle and external observers" was invented by W. Daniel Hillis (Rindge, N.H.), Kjerstin I. Williams (Los Angeles), Thomas A. Tombrello (Altadena, Calif.), James W. Sarrett (Los Angeles), Luke W. Khanlian (Granada Hills, Calif.), Adrian L. Kaehler (Los Angeles) and Russel Howe (La Cresenta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least one embodiment of this disclosure includes a method for an autonomous vehicle (e.g., a fully autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle) to communicate with external observers. The method inclu...