ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,711, issued on July 21.

"Dynamic driving metric output generation using computer vision methods" was invented by Juan Carlos Aragon (Redwood City, Calif.) and Regina Madigan (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to dynamic driving metric output platforms that utilize improved computer vision methods to determine vehicle metrics from video footage. A computing platform may receive video footage from a vehicle camera. The computing platform may determine that a reference marker in the video footage has reached a beginning and an end of a road marker based on brightness transitions, and m...