US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on Jan. 20 for "Automated honking system for collision prevention" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,407, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Automated honking system for collision prevention" was invented by Jason Lwin (San Francisco), Zehao Hu (Redwood City, Calif.), Yunjie Zhao (San Francisco), Xiao Lin (Campbell, Calif.) and Devin Wieker (Oceanside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying potential collisions in which another vehicle may collide with the AV. The AV detects the other vehicle and determines the other vehicle speed, acceleration, and trajectory. The AV determines that there is a risk of collision if the other vehicle continues on its current ...