US Patent Issued to Volvo Car on May 12 for "Systems and methods for increasing awareness of unexpected vulnerable road users" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,596, issued on May 12, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Systems and methods for increasing awareness of unexpected vulnerable road users" was invented by Henrik Segesten (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for increasing awareness regarding unexpected vulnerable road users (VRUs) within an environment of a vehicle are provided. An example method comprises detecting, by a system onboard a vehicle and comprising a processor, a vulnerable road user (VRU) located within an environment of the vehicle. The method further comprises determining, by the system, a probability representative of a d...