US Patent Issued to HERE GLOBAL on Aug. 25 for "Method, apparatus, and computer program product for automated lane merging assistance" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,442, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and computer program product for automated lane merging assistance" was invented by James Fowe (Chicago) and Bruce Bernhardt (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for providing merging assistance for a vehicle. The method includes capturing a vehicle speed of the vehicle travelling in a lane of roadway. The method also includes receiving adjacent vehicle data relating to an adjacent vehicle in an adjacent lane. The method further includes receiving adjacent lane data r...