US Patent Issued to Geotab on Sept. 15 for "Methods for determining and reporting vehicle following distance" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,903, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Geotab Inc. (Oakville, Canada).

"Methods for determining and reporting vehicle following distance" was invented by Cristian Florin Ivascu (Hamilton, Canada), Joy Mazumder (Etobicoke, Canada), Shashank Saurav (Toronto), Javed Siddique (York, Canada), Mohammed Sohail Siddique (Milton, Canada) and Donghao Qiao (Milton, Canada).

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,...