ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,155, issued on May 19, was assigned to OmniQ Corp. (Salt Lake City).

"Automated HOV violation detection" was invented by Yoram Hofman (Kefar Bialik, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for automated HOV violation detection. In one implementation, a presence of a vehicle is detected within a traffic lane. Based on the detection of the vehicle, one or more second images and one or more third images are captured. The images are processed using a neural network. Based on the processing using the neural network, a number of occupants within the vehicle is determined. Operations are initiated based on the...