US Patent Issued to HERE GLOBAL on Aug. 25 for "Method and apparatus for verifying a road work event" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,689, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for verifying a road work event" was invented by Jingwei Xu (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Yuxin Guan (Chicago), Weimin Huang (Chicago) and Bruce Bernhardt (Wauconda, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program product for determining a road work event confidence are described herein. In the context of a method, the method may determine a road network speed profile corresponding with a road work event location. The method may determine, based at least in part on probe data corresponding with the road work ...