ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,723, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Kyocera Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Transmission collision avoidance in vehicle-to-vehicle communications" was invented by Amit Kalhan (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The devices, systems, and methods discussed herein involve a vehicle, in which a reporting user equipment (UE) device is located, using one or more sensors to search and identify other nearby UE-containing vehicles. The sensor output is used as an input to an Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm to identify the UE-containing vehicles that could be potential hidden-nodes relative to each other. After detecting the potential ...