ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,241, issued on March 11, was assigned to HAAS Inc. (Chicago).

"Methods and systems for digital alerting of vehicles based on a characteristic of a road and at least one factor corresponding to an object" was invented by Jigar Patel (Arlington Heights, Ill.), Cory Hohs (Chicago) and Jeremy Agulnek (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a method, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a system for vehicle alerting are disclosed. In an example, a computer-implemented method for alerting vehicles, the method including receiving, at a cloud computing system, digital data that includes location information about an...