US Patent Issued to NEC Laboratories Europe on Jan. 28 for "Method and system of warning road vehicles of an approaching emergency vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,376, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH (Heidelberg, Germany).

"Method and system of warning road vehicles of an approaching emergency vehicle" was invented by Girma Mamuye Yilma (Heidelberg, Germany) and Faqir Zarrar Yousaf (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of warning target objects (TOs) of an approaching reference object (RO) includes receiving, by a back-situation awareness function (BSAF) application, RO notification (RON) messages from the RO containing RO related state information, generating, by the BSAF application, a geo-sector (GS) area including a number of GS segmen...