ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,333, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Weighted trajectory similarity determination based on sub-trajectory querying" was invented by Vinicius Michel Gottin (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Paulo Abelha Ferreira (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Pablo Nascimento da Silva (Niteroi, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Querying trajectories is disclosed. A database of rich typical trajectories, which includes both position and attribute information for each of the typical trajectories, is created. Using a current trajectory of a node or a current position of the node, the database is queried for a rich typi...