ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,932, issued on June 16, was assigned to NETRADYNE INC. (San Diego).

"Anomalous road signs" was invented by Matthew Thornton (San Diego), Venkata Sreekanta Reddy Annapureddy (San Diego), David Jonathan Julian (San Diego) and Arvind Yedla (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for detecting and classifying driving behaviors, as well as techniques for improving such systems and methods, which may include identifying geographic locations where anomalous rates of non-compliant driving behaviors are observed, such as in the vicinity of certain traffic signs, traffic lights, and road markings."

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