ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,794, issued on May 5, was assigned to Hong Kong Applied Science And Technology Research Institute Co. Ltd (Shatin, Hong Kong).

"System and method for road monitoring" was invented by Jiashi Feng (Shenzhen, China), Alpamys Urtay (Pak Shek Kok, Hong Kong), Hang Chen (Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong), Xinghua Zhu (Shenzhen, China), Dongzhe Su (Shenzhen, China) and Shijun Fan (Fanling, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for road monitoring, comprises the steps of receiving, via a communication module, a first point cloud data from one or more designated road side units (RSUs) from one or more of a plurality of RSUs locat...