ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,085, issued on March 31, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Infrastructure element state model and prediction" was invented by Daniel Pohl (Hessdorf, Germany) and Maik Fox (Rheinstetten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic safety device for monitoring a vehicle and an object in a vicinity of an infrastructure element and for generating and providing the vehicle with a recommendation to avoid or reduce impact with the object includes instructions to cause one or more processors to receive sensor information from a sensor that is mountable to an infrastructure element, the sensor information comprising in...