ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,604, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Hazard exploration, estimation, and response system and method" was invented by Florian Geissler (Munich), Frederik Pasch (Karlsruhe, Germany), Cornelius Buerkle (Karlsruhe, Germany), Ralf Graefe (Haar, Germany), Fabian Oboril (Karlsruhe, Germany), Yang Peng (Munich) and Kay-Ulrich Scholl (Malsch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for the exploration of environments for the estimation and detection of hazards or near hazards within the environment and the mitigation of hazards therein. The exploration of the environment and mitigat...