ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,211, issued on May 19, was assigned to HAMAD BIN KHALIFA UNIVERSITY (Doha, Qatar).

"Traffic accident prediction systems and methods" was invented by David Yang (Doha, Qatar), Chaojie Li (Doha, Qatar) and Mansoor Al-Thani (Doha, Qatar).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Traffic accident prediction systems and methods are provided. The traffic accident prediction systems and methods include an accident prediction model that utilizes a spatiotemporal attention-based multi-graph convolution neural network to predict the number of traffic accidents in a predetermined region over a predetermined period of time in order to assist with the efficie...