US Patent Issued to HERE GLOBAL on Sept. 22 for "Automatic detection of segment width expansion using probe data" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,656, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Automatic detection of segment width expansion using probe data" was invented by James Adeyemi Fowe (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to automatically detect changes in width of road segments in real-time or near real-time using probe data, such as probe data collected from vehicle and/or mobile devices traveling along a road segment. Probe data collected in real-time or near real-time is partitioned in order to identify width-defining portions of the probe data. The width-defining ...