ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,658, issued on May 12, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne Billancourt, France).

"Method for assisting in keeping a vehicle on the road in the event of lane narrowing or widening" was invented by Renaud Deborne (Guyancourt, France) and Raphael Quilliard (Guyancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for detecting the route taken by a motor vehicle in a particular zone within which the number of lanes increases or decreases. The method includes recording position data characterizing the position of the motor vehicle in relation to the lane separation lines marked on the road and calculating, via a recurrent neural n...