ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,787, issued on July 28, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Generation and transmission of vulnerable road user awareness messages" was invented by Satish C. Jha (Portland, Ore.), Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan (Portland, Ore.), Vesh Raj Sharma Banjade (Portland, Ore.) and Leonardo Gomes Baltar (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), and in particular, to Vulnerable Road User (VRU) basic services (VBS) of a VRU ITS Station (ITS-S). Different arrangements and configurations of the VBS within the facilities layer of an ITS-S are described. Also describ...