US Patent Issued to HERE GLOBAL on May 26 for "Method and apparatus for risk computation of concealed areas on a street" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,297, issued on May 26, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and apparatus for risk computation of concealed areas on a street" was invented by Jerome Beaurepaire (Courbevoie, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for computation of risk index. The approach, for example, involves acquiring historical probe data associated with an area. The historical probe data comprises data associated with distribution of vehicles entering or leaving the area in a given time partition. The approach further involves obtaining map feature data associated with an entrance or exit of the area, from a ...