US Patent Issued to HAAS on May 6 for "Methods and systems for vehicle alerting based on the functional classification of roads" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,660, issued on May 6, was assigned to HAAS Inc. (Chicago).

"Methods and systems for vehicle alerting based on the functional classification of roads" 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: "A method for vehicle alerting includes receiving, at a cloud computing system, digital data that includes a location of a vehicle and a hazard lights on status of the vehicle, determining a functional classification of a road that corresponds to the location of the vehicle, wherein the digital data is received from the vehicle via a wireless connection, a...