US Patent Issued to Geotab on April 7 for "Systems and methods for calibrating vehicle following distance determination" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,196, issued on April 7, was assigned to Geotab Inc. (Oakville, Canada).

"Systems and methods for calibrating vehicle following distance determination" was invented by Shashank Saurav (Toronto), Javed Siddique (York, Canada), Mohammed Sohail Siddique (Milton, Canada), Tuhin Tiwari (Kitchener, Canada) and Donghao Qiao (Milton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for validating following distance detection models are discussed. A LIDAR unit and an image capture device are installed at a vehicle. LIDAR data from the LIDAR unit is used to identify a lead vehicle and for determination of a true following distance to t...