ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,820, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Torc Robotics Inc. (Blacksburg, Va.).
"Vehicle proximity notification" was invented by Ruel Faruque (Blacksburg, Va.) and Andre Scholich (Leipzig, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of this technical solution can include generating, by one or more processors coupled to non-transitory memory, a metric based on one or more of a first aspect of a first trajectory of a vehicle and a second aspect of a second trajectory of an object in a field of view of the vehicle, identifying, by the one or more processors, an audiovisual device of the vehicle located at a portion of an exterior of th...