ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,073, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"System and method for pedestrian projection" was invented by Vincent Pascual (Dublin, Calif.), Anat Litan Sever (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Alexander Granieri (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system of a vehicle may comprise one or more processors configured to receive sensor data from one or more vehicle sensors as the vehicle drives along a road, determine a location of a pedestrian based on the sensor data, perform vehicle-to-vehicle communication with a second vehicle indicating the location of the pedestrian, project an ima...