ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,266, issued on July 8, was assigned to GEKOT Inc. (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.).

"Collision alert systems and methods for micromobility vehicles" was invented by Dan Champoux (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Autumn Mahoney (Ferndale, Mich.), Honor Hutchison (Troy, Mich.), Elias Cengeri (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Julia Mahoney (Royal Oak, Mich.), Keira Mahoney (Royal Oak, Mich.), Evan Welch (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Mihir Shah (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Lucas Chin (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Avani Nandalur (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Julia Xiao (Troy, Mich.) and Katherine Konoya (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Collision/fa...