ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,937, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Luci Mobility Inc. (Brentwood, Tenn.).

"Systems and methods for white cane detection on a motorized mobile system" was invented by Jered H. Dean (Arvada, Colo.), Barry G. Dean (Franklin, Tenn.), Dan A. Preston (Bainbridge Island, Wash.) and Rupak Dasgupta (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system is for a motorized mobile system (MMS) that provides powered mobility to one or more users. The processing system comprising at least one sensor that is operably configured to generate a point cloud of objects in a field-of-view of the sensors, wherein the object is identified and remove...