US Patent Issued to GoPro on Aug. 4 for "Method and system for providing alerts to a user" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,946, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Method and system for providing alerts to a user" was invented by Joseph Azar (Five Dock, Australia), Thomas Larcher (Mosman, Australia) and Sebastian Bernard Alexander Adams (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for providing alerts to a helmet user. A method includes determining a current location of the user, determining a transit area and a transit direction of the user based on the current location, retrieving records of transit alerts based on the transit area of the user, selecting relevant transit aler...