ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,582, issued on Nov. 3.

"Estimating traffic volume using spatiotemporal point data" was invented by Kentaro Iio (Yao, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As described herein, systems and methods for estimating traffic volume provide the ability to identify an area of interest in which to determine an estimated traffic volume, obtain point data associated with the area of interest, determine a concentration of the area of interest based on the point data, obtain one or more known volume-to-concentration ratios, and determine the estimated traffic volume for the area of interest based the concentration of the area of interest and the on...