US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 11 for "Real-time situational planning for passenger transport" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,682, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Real-time situational planning for passenger transport" was invented by Fabian Oboril (Karlsruhe, Germany), Frederik Pasch (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Cornelius Buerkle (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods for monitoring and improving utilization of a public transport vehicle. The transport control system determines an in-vehicle status of a passenger transport vehicle based on in-vehicle sensor data about an interior of the passenger transport vehicle. The transport control system also determines ...