US Patent Issued to Nissan North America on Oct. 7 for "Real-time traffic condition warning system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,635, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Real-time traffic condition warning system" was invented by Fang-Chieh Chou (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Liam Pedersen (San Francisco) and Najamuddin Mirza Baig (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system receives GPS data and on-board sensor data from several connected vehicles indicating locations of nearby vehicles and objects. The system processes the data to create a shared-world model that includes locations and velocities of the connected vehicles and nearby vehicles and objects, and the system determines whether driving hazards exist, su...