US Patent Issued to HERE Global on Aug. 18 for "Method, apparatus, and system for providing a runaway vehicle detection system" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,300, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to HERE Global B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and system for providing a runaway vehicle detection system" was invented by Jeffrey Moisan (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for a runaway vehicle detection system. The approach, for example, involves processing sensor data to detect that a vehicle is involved in or predicted to be involved in a runaway vehicle event. The approach also involves processing map data, the sensor data, or a combination thereof to determine a runaway vehicle safety location based on at least one attribute of the vehicle. Th...