ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,491, issued on Sept. 8.
"Systems and methods for communication between infrastructure, vehicles, and user devices" was invented by Oliver Lei (Windsor, Canada), Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, Mich.) and Somak Datta Gupta (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trail crossing system is disclosed. The system may include a detection unit and a processor. The detection unit may be configured to detect a presence of a vehicle and a person in proximity to an intersection point on a road network. The processor may be configured to obtain inputs from the detection unit. Responsive to obtaining the inputs, the processor may be configur...