ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,998, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Motor vehicles with blind spot modeling" was invented by Michael J. Maciolek (Kerrville, Texas), Donnette L. Moncrief Brown (San Antonio), Manfred Amann (San Antonio), Snehal Desai (Richardson, Texas), Nicole Ferretti (Plano, Texas), Melissa Jane Porter (Lutz, Fla.), Sayeef Rahim (Frisco, Texas), Andrew Logan Taylor (San Antonio) and Martin Lopez (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for proactively monitoring when a driver's own motor vehicle may enter into the blind spot of another vehicle include a blind ...