US Patent Issued to The Auto Club Group on Feb. 24 for "Road-side detection and alert system and method" (Michigan, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,058, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Auto Club Group (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Road-side detection and alert system and method" was invented by Shohreh Abedi (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Luis Castro (Riverview, Fla.), Jeffrey Laskowski (Troy, Mich.) and Viral Patel (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alert system and method comprising at least one alert beacon having one or more sensors (e.g., LiDAR sensor). The alert beacon further including a processor operable to poll the LiDAR sensor for a predefined number of beta readings in response to receiving an initial reading from the LiDAR sensor indicating a vehicle is withi...