ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,246, issued on July 14, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Traffic sign add-on" was invented by Muhammad Abubakar Dalhat (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Hassan Bassam (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Naif Abdulkareem Aldalbahi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulaziz Abdulkareem Aldalbahi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic sign add-on includes a front layer made of a first fabric having one or more reflective sections and a back layer made of a second fabric having a slot extending along a long dimension of the back layer from a bottom end to a top end with a zipper in the slot. The...