ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,096, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).
"Optimum lap derivation via track segmentation and prior racing measurements" was invented by Matthew Charles Rowe (Bletchley, Great Britain), Sahil Malhotra (Hampton, Great Britain), Sergio Aldea Lopez (Valladolid, Spain), Oleg Gennadievich Shevelev (Chislehurst, Great Britain) and Alberto Polleri (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for deriving an optimal traversal path on a racetrack are disclosed. The system partitions a track into straight and curved segments. The system identifies optimal traversals through each segment from...