US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 15 for "Virtual models for communications between user devices and external observers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,588, issued on July 15, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Virtual models for communications between user devices and external observers" was invented by Debdeep Banerjee (San Diego) and Ananthapadmanabhan Arasanipalai Kandhadai (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for interactions between an autonomous vehicle and one or more external observers include virtual models of drivers the autonomous vehicle. The virtual models may be generated by the autonomous vehicle and displayed to one or more external observers, and in some cases using devices worn by the external observers. The virtual models may fac...