ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,344, issued on July 14, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Leading vehicle braking detection" was invented by Roberto Ragusa (Rome), Remo Freddi (Ronciglione, Italy), Chiara Conti (Rome) and Alessandra Asaro (Rome).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product for brake detection is provided. The present invention may include determining a first geometric ratio associated with a rear portion of a first vehicle, from a first image of the first vehicle. The present invention may also include determining a second geometric ratio associated with the rear portio...