ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,363, issued on April 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Awareness checker for enhancing collaborative driving supervision" was invented by Rachel Alexander (Chicago), Shabin Mahadevan (Lake Orion, Mich.) and Steffen Kuhn (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an interface and a control circuit. The interface may be configured to (i) receive sensor-based information from a plurality of sensor signals from a vehicle platform of a vehicle and environmental information about an environment of the vehicle, and (ii) present one or more control signals to the vehicle platform. The control circu...