ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,379, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Rakuten Mobile Inc. (Tokyo).

"Collision avoidance AR application" was invented by Hitomi Sato (Tokyo), Takuya Miyazawa (Tokyo), Kei Sakaguchi (Tokyo), Gunhee Cho (Tokyo) and Hiroki Matsuo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "AR glasses includes one or more processors, and at least one of the one or more processors performs: receiving processing of receiving collision prediction information including location information about a dangerous area where a user is predicted to collide with a mobile object and information regarding a trajectory of the mobile object, from an external apparatus; determ...