ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,481, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to GovComm LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Wrong way driving monitoring based on object detection" was invented by Craig A. Waltzer (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.), Svetoslav Veltchev (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) and Guy Rabbat (Half Moon Bay, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for monitoring a detection zone of a road to detect a vehicle moving in a wrong direction. A method can comprise identifying a first object in a first image; identifying a second object in a second image; and determining if the first object and the second object is ...