US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on June 24 for "Device and method for avoiding collisions between a turning combination vehicle and a road user" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,694, issued on June 24, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Device and method for avoiding collisions between a turning combination vehicle and a road user" was invented by Deepak Sharma (Hoshiarpur Punjab, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a traffic situation associated with a road user and a turning combination vehicle. The combination vehicle comprises a first vehicle unit and a second vehicle unit. The method comprises obtaining sensor data indicative of traffic information from respective sides of the vehicle units from a set of sensors. The traffic information is indicative of respe...