ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,994, issued on April 14, was assigned to Shenzhen Yinwang Intelligent Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Estimating accident risk level of road traffic participants" was invented by Stefano Sabatini (Boulogne Billancourt, France), Thomas Gilles (Boulogne Billancourt, France), Dzmitry Tsishkou (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and Tao Yin (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of estimating an accident risk level of a first traffic participant based on interactions or negotiations of the first traffic participant with one or more other traffic participants is provided. The method includes generating a plurality ...