US Patent Issued to Samsara on Feb. 10 for "Vulnerable road user detection" (California, Tennessee, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,349, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).

"Vulnerable road user detection" was invented by Rohit Annigeri (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sharan Srinivasan (Campbell, Calif.), William Nathan Hurst (Seattle), Akshay Raj Dhamija (Campbell, Calif.), Shreyas Patil (Wilmington, Calif.), Kevin Lai (Redmond, Wash.), Paul Savastinuk (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), William Evan Welbourne (Seattle) and Abner Ayala Acevedo (Clarksville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented to detect potential collisions of vehicles with a Vulnerable Road User (VRU). The provided solution inclu...