ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,263, issued on July 1, was assigned to AUTOBRAINS TECHNOLOGIES LTD (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Bump alert" was invented by Boaz Mell (Petach Tikva, Israel) and Igal Raichelgauz (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for bump alert, the method may include receiving by a vehicle computerized system, at least one visual bump indicator that is visible before driving over at least one bump; obtaining sensed information regarding an environment of the vehicle; processing the sensed information, wherein the processing comprises searching a visual bump indicator of the at least one visual bump indicator; determining whether the ve...