US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association on Oct. 14 for "Augmented reality-based vehicle guidance for improved driving safety" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,143, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (San Antonio).

"Augmented reality-based vehicle guidance for improved driving safety" was invented by Christopher James Waful (San Antonio), Gerald Richard Halbeisen (Cibolo, Texas) and Christopher Lee Doughton (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of intelligently managing information being presented to a driver in a vehicle via a mobile computing device is provided. The method includes obtaining sensor data from the mobile computing device to determine whether unsafe driving behavior is occurring, and causing alerts to be presen...