ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,996, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Hazard indicator" was invented by Swetha Barkam (Meridian, Idaho), Bhumika Chhabra (Boise, Idaho), Kathryn H. Russo (Boise, Idaho) and Zhao Zhao (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, machine-readable media, and methods related to hazard indicators are described. Determining whether hazards exists and the location of a hazard can be helpful when moving about. Computing devices (e.g., mobile devices and/or cloud-based computers) can be configured to run an application (e.g., a hazard indication tool) to determine that a hazard exists and...