US Patent Issued to Uber Technologies on March 25 for "Methods and systems for providing alerts to drivers" (New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,950, issued on March 25, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Methods and systems for providing alerts to drivers" was invented by Brennan T. Lopez-Hinojosa (Albuquerque, N.M.) and Kermit D. Lopez (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring system can receive sensor data from one or more sensors of a vehicle to monitor an exterior of the vehicle. Based on monitoring the exterior of the vehicle, the system can detect movement of one or more pedestrians in the exterior of the vehicle. Based at least in part on detecting the movement of the one or more pedestrians in the exterior of the vehicle, t...