US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on July 14 for "Vehicle alarm systems and methods" (Texas, Illinois, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,304, issued on July 14, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Vehicle alarm systems and methods" was invented by Brian Howard Katz (San Antonio), Surender Kumar (Palatine, Ill.), Jeffrey Thomas Cavanaugh (Sun City, Ariz.), Daniel Diaz (San Antonio), Jennifer Holly Nance (San Antonio) and Robert Christian Law (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for activating alarms in motor vehicles in response to detecting alarms from other nearby vehicles. This is accomplished by using sound emitting devices in vehicles that can emit two substantially different sounds: a first "wa...