US 12109938

Patent Overview — US 12109938 B2

Title: System for communication of hazardous vehicle and road conditions

Patent number / application: US 12109938 B2 (application US 16/991,595; pre-grant publication US 2021/0049909 A1)

Assignee: Emergency Safety Solutions Inc (current assignee as listed; original assignee ESS Help Inc)

Key dates: Priority date 2019-08-12; application filed 2020-08-12; granted/published 2024-10-08. Legal status listed as active, with an adjusted expiration of 2041-01-09 (stated as an assumption, not a legal conclusion).

Inventors: David M. Tucker, Stephen T. Powers, Mike Incorvaia, Austin Reece Tucker

Purpose: The patent is directed to communicating hazardous vehicle and road conditions. The title and classifications present it as an in-vehicle instrumentation/signaling system that notifies others of hazards or collision risk. Specifically, the abstracted classifications cover: vehicle instrumentation output to a user (visual output such as blinking lights or displays, head-up displays, acoustic output, and information handling/prioritization); vehicle lighting/signaling for giving flashing caution signals (hazard-type signals) and for automatically indicating collision risk between vehicles or with pedestrians based on vehicle sensor data; signaling for anti-collision purposes; and drive-control systems for predicting travel path or likelihood of collision responsive to traffic or environmental parameters.

Plain-language scope (based only on the supplied excerpt): The classification data indicates a system mounted in or interacting with a vehicle that detects or is informed of a hazardous condition (including collision risk), then communicates it — to the vehicle's own occupants through visual or audible alerts, and to surrounding traffic through caution/hazard light signaling — potentially with data exchanged via a vehicle/server arrangement. The prior-art keywords listed are "vehicle," "communication," "microprocessor," "hazard," and "server."

What the excerpt does not establish: The supplied text contains no claims, no abstract, no detailed description, and no drawings. It therefore does not establish the actual claim scope, the specific hardware architecture, how the server and microprocessor cooperate, or the precise hazard-detection and communication methods. The classification listings and keywords are indicative only and should not be read as a statement of claim coverage. No litigation, ownership-transfer merits, validity, or prior-art analysis is provided here.

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