US Patent Issued to Volvo Car on July 8 for "Method for preventing a collision of a vehicle with another road user, collision warning system, and vehicle" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,479, issued on July 8, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Method for preventing a collision of a vehicle with another road user, collision warning system, and vehicle" was invented by Alexander Eriksson (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method for preventing a collision of a vehicle with another road user carrying a mobile electronic device. The method comprises receiving identification data from the mobile electronic device at a receiving unit of the vehicle. Thereafter, a position of the mobile electronic device is calculated based on a signal strength of the signal ca...