US Patent Issued to Geotab on July 28 for "Systems and methods for detecting vehicle collisions" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,842, issued on July 28, was assigned to Geotab Inc. (Oakville, Canada).

"Systems and methods for detecting vehicle collisions" was invented by Joy Mazumder (Etobicoke, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, models, and training for collision detection and near miss detection are discussed. Models are trained to identify collisions and near misses between two vehicles, based on how quickly a bounding box size changes for a vehicle represented in image data. Rapidly changing bounding box size is indicative of extreme proximity between vehicles, and thus indicative of collision or near-miss scenarios. Identifications of...