US Patent Issued on Feb. 10 for "Automatic collision-avoidance and/or harm-minimization of vehicle collisions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,248, issued on Feb. 10.

"Automatic collision-avoidance and/or harm-minimization of vehicle collisions" was invented by David E. Newman (Poway, Calif.) and R. Kemp Massengill (Palos Verdes, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A subject vehicle in traffic can detect a second vehicle using sensors that measure motions of the second vehicle, and thereby determine one or more future trajectories of the second vehicle, and thereby determine whether a collision between the subject and second vehicles is imminent. The subject vehicle can calculate one or more sequences of actions, each action comprising an acceleration, a deceleration, and...