ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,376, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) communication and data association for pedestrian position determination and collision avoidance" was invented by Anantharaman Balasubramanian (San Diego), Dan Vassilovski (Del Mar, Calif.), Shailesh Patil (San Diego), Kapil Gulati (Belle Mead, N.J.) and Gene Wesley Marsh (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects relate to vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) communication and collision avoidance using data association of data from different vehicle-to-everything (V2X) devices. In some aspects, a V2X device (e.g., a vehicle) can det...