ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,533, issued on July 1, was assigned to Zenseact AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Estimation of accident intensity for vehicles" was invented by Carl Lindberg (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for alerting drivers and/or autonomous vehicles of high risk scenarios. The method includes obtaining positional data of a vehicle, where the positional data is indicative of geographical position and heading of the vehicle. The method further includes obtaining environmental data of the vehicle, where the environmental data is indicative of state of the surrounding environment of the vehic...