ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,271, issued on June 30, was assigned to HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method for identifying traffic signs, system, and vehicle" was invented by Tsung-Wei Liu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chin-Pin Kuo (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying traffic signs is provided. The method obtains an image of a travel in front of vehicle. The method obtains an image of a first sign from the image of the travel and corresponding to a traffic lane where the vehicle current is, and obtains an image of a second sign from the image of the travel, associated with the image of the first sign,...