ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,985, issued on April 14, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Crash severity detection system and related methods" was invented by Dhruv Tiwari (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes memory hardware configured to store instructions and processor hardware configured to execute the instructions. The instructions include, in response to a vehicle being in an accident, receiving, from a set of sensors, information associated with the vehicle. The instructions include determining a severity rating of the accident based on at least some of the information. The instructions include ...