ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,903, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Obstructed lane detection and warning method" was invented by Dhyana Ramamurthy (Novi, Mich.), Aaron Weinfield (Encinitas, Calif.), Brian Gallagher (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Susan Graham (Solana Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote station including a transceiver, a memory, and a control module. The memory is configured to store baseline static paths and dynamic paths of vehicles through an intersection. The baseline static paths refer to at least one of previous predetermined paths, averaged paths or historical paths. The dynamic paths refer to curre...