US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on May 27 for "Vehicle based external environment augmentation for operator alertness" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,420, issued on May 27, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Vehicle based external environment augmentation for operator alertness" was invented by Aaron K. Baughman (Cary, N.C.), Shikhar Kwatra (San Jose, Calif.), Diwesh Pandey (Bangalore, India) and Tathagato Bose (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A route from a first physical location to a second physical location is divided into a set of segments using a route optimization engine. Using a user response analysis model, a response to a physical environment associated with a segment in the set of segments is scored, the scoring resultin...