US Patent Issued to Velios on May 12 for "Situational awareness systems and methods and micromobility platform" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,516, issued on May 12, was assigned to Velios Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Situational awareness systems and methods and micromobility platform" was invented by Brian Medower (San Jose, Calif.) and Harold Russell (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing situational awareness to a cyclist or other user of a micromobility vehicle comprises a stereo camera assembly and processing logic configured to determine, based on images acquired by the stereo camera assembly, a distance between the cyclist and an object of interest (e.g., a vehicle). The system is configured to determine a threat level of the object...