ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,661, issued on May 6, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Road hazard communication" was invented by Tomer Rider (Naahryia, Israel), Aviv Ron (Klachim, Israel) and Yair Giwnewer (Tai-El, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, systems, and/or methods may involve reporting a road hazard. Road hazard data may be collected for an object on a road, which may include automatically generated data from a device associated with the object causing a hazard. The road hazard data may be provided to a service, an application, a device, a client, and so on. For example, the road hazard data may be merged with a map and pr...