US Patent Issued to Nissan North America on Aug. 18 for "System to communicate vehicle intent using projection" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,298, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Nissan North America Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"System to communicate vehicle intent using projection" was invented by Erik Lee St. Gray (Tacoma, Wash.), Marcell Jose Vazquez-Chanlatte (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Mark Bailey (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communicating vehicle intent using projection includes receiving an exception scene generated using scene data captured by one or more systems of a vehicle. The exception scene is indicated by a detection of at least one potential hazard to a safe operation of the vehicle, and the vehicle includes a projector. A hazard type associated with ...