ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,974, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HERE Global B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System and method for road traffic pattern calculation" was invented by Corinne Bradley (Chicago), Arnold Sheynman (Northbrook, Ill.) and Kyle Jackson (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a traffic pattern data calculation system, a method and a computer program product for calculating traffic pattern data. The traffic pattern data calculation system is configured to receive, for a road segment, historical traffic data and complementary data, for a predefined time window. The traffic pattern data calculation system is config...