ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,337, issued on May 5, was assigned to Emergency Safety Solutions Inc. (Houston).

"Remote vehicle hazard and communication beacon" was invented by John Zachariah Cobb (Seabrook, Texas), Daniel Anthony Tucker (Santee, Calif.), David M. Tucker (Katy, Texas), Stephen T. Powers (Houston), Austin Reece Tucker (Katy, Texas), Kenneth E. Wagner (Broken Arrow, Okla.) and Mike Incorvaia (Hendersonville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hazard beacon has an interface to a vehicle wiring harness configured to detect that vehicle emergency indicators have been deployed, a plurality of separately strobe capable light segments forming a hazard s...