US Patent Issued to Canon on May 19 for "Communication methods and devices in intelligent transport systems" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,367, issued on May 19, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Communication methods and devices in intelligent transport systems" was invented by Eric Nassor (Thorigne-Fouillard, France), Herve Ruellan (Rennes, France) and Julien Sevin (St. Aubin du Cormier, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, there is provided a Collective Perception Message, CPM, characterizing a plurality of Vulnerable Road Users based on a plurality of received VAMs, thereby allowing an ITS station to efficiently aggregate VAM messages from VRUs and retransmit information about the VRUs to other ITS stations. Consequently, the securi...