ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,058, issued on Sept. 22.
"Visual assistance system" was invented by Aarna Raghavapudi (Aurora, Ill.), Shivani Jambunathan (Aurora, Ill.) and Ryan Cho (Aurora, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A visual assistance system or distance and location detection system is provided. The system comprises a sensor detecting distance of objects in a user's path and alerting the user when an object is within a designated proximity to the user. The system further comprises a location detection system using GPS technology that tracks the user's location and issues an alert to the user or other individual when the user's location exceeds the boun...