US Patent Issued to Vision Works IP on May 13 for "Absolute acceleration sensor for use within moving vehicles" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,785, issued on May 13, was assigned to Vision Works IP Corp. (Janesville, Calif.).

"Absolute acceleration sensor for use within moving vehicles" was invented by Alfred S. Braunberger (Sequim, Wash.) and Beau M. Braunberger (Upland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle monitoring system for turning off an idling engine comprises a vehicle speed sensor configured to detect a lack of motion, or "stationary status" of a vehicle and emit a parameter correlated to the motion status of the vehicle, a transmission status detector configured to detect a transmission status of the vehicle, an alerting device capable of warning other...