US Patent Issued to HERE GLOBAL on April 21 for "Method for determining an optimal location to wait for a left turn to minimize traffic impact" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,193, issued on April 21, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method for determining an optimal location to wait for a left turn to minimize traffic impact" was invented by Jerome Beaurepaire (Courbevoie, France), Leon Stenneth (Chicago) and Jeremy Michael Young (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, a method and a computer program product are provided to determine a left turn decision for a user or autonomous vehicle attempting to turn at an intersection of a road. For example, the system obtains contextual features and/or sensor data related to the intersection of the road. An optimal location on ...