ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,284, issued on July 8, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for transmitting information on cluster comprising vulnerable road users" was invented by Myoungseob Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jaeho Hwang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for maintaining a VRU cluster is provided. The method comprises: estimating cluster parameters; and transmitting cluster information including the cluster parameters. The cluster parameters comprise at least one of the center position of the cluster and the velocity of the cluster. The center position of the cluster is deter...