ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,219, issued on July 29, was assigned to TUSIMPLE INC. (San Diego).
"Intelligent detection of emergency vehicles" was invented by Ali Reza Abbaspour (San Diego) and Navid Sarmadnia (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle detects an approaching emergency vehicle by performing a plurality of types of analysis of signals output by sensors in the vehicle. Each type of analysis generates a different prediction that indicates a likelihood of a proximity of an emergency vehicle to the autonomous vehicle. The predictions are processed and fused to generate a determination that indicates whether an emergency vehicle is ...