ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,901, issued on March 17, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for determining intersection threat indices" was invented by Durga Prasad Dhulipudi (Hyderabad, India), Venkatrangarao Ramaraju (Hyderabad, India) and Naveen Bansal (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for determining intersection threat indices. In one embodiment, geometry data representing a set of pathways in an environment is identified. An initial threat index value for a first intersection is generated based on a quantity of pathways in a sub...