US Patent Issued to Geotab on Sept. 15 for "Methods for creating training data for determining vehicle following distance" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,071, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Geotab Inc. (Oakville, Canada).

"Methods for creating training data for determining vehicle following distance" was invented by Joy Mazumder (Etobicoke, Canada), Shashank Saurav (Toronto), Javed Siddique (York, Canada) and Mohammed Sohail Siddique (Milton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, models, and training data for models are discussed, for determining vehicle positioning, and in particular identifying tailgating. Simulated training images showing vehicles following other vehicles, under various conditions, are generated using a virtual environment. Models are traine...