US Patent Issued to Mobileye Vision Technologies on April 21 for "Vulnerable road user (VRU) collision avoidance system" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,032, issued on April 21, was assigned to Mobileye Vision Technologies Ltd. (Jerusalem).

"Vulnerable road user (VRU) collision avoidance system" was invented by Yaniv Elimaleh (Jerusalem).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for reducing false positives for generating warnings to avoid potential collisions between a vehicle and vulnerable road users (VRUs). This is accomplished via an onboard vehicle safety system that uses crowdsourced map data to determine whether a vehicle is capable of performing a maneuver that results in a lateral shift of the vehicle (which may include a lane-shifting or turning maneuver) wit...