ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,062, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for detecting vulnerable road users" was invented by Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego), Dan Vassilovski (Del Mar, Calif.), Gene Wesley Marsh (San Diego), Shailesh Patil (San Diego) and Nileshkumar Parekh (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A first user equipment (UE) may monitor various sensors to obtain data associated with a user of the first UE, and may determine that the user is in a vulnerable state based on monitoring these sensors. The vulnerable state of the user m...