ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,072, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas).
"Transport dangerous situation consensus" was invented by Lucas Smith (Frisco, Texas) and Jay Bartholomew (McKinney, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of receiving data, by a transport, from a device in proximity to the transport, the data comprises one or more of a speed, a direction, and a distance of the device from the transport, determining, by the transport, a dangerous situation based on the data, obtaining consensus, by the transport, to validate the dangerous situation from one or more of: one ...