ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,608, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Apparatus and methods for predicting slipping events for micromobility vehicles" was invented by Jerome Beaurepaire (Nantes, France) and Nicolas Neubauer (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method and computer program product are provided for predicting slipping events for micromobility vehicles. In one example, the apparatus receives input data indicating a target location and including contextual data associated with the target location. The apparatus causes a machine learning model to generate output data as a function of the input...