US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on May 5 for "Systems and methods for detecting vehicle idling and determining classifications for the vehicle idling" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,418, issued on May 5, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for detecting vehicle idling and determining classifications for the vehicle idling" was invented by Francesco De Felice (Florence, Italy), Filippo Valente (Sesto Fiorentino, Italy), Giovanni Pini (Florence, Italy) and Tommaso Mugnai (Florence, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive road facing camera (RFC) video data, driver facing camera (DFC) video data, and idling events data associated with a vehicle, and may receive traffic data associated with the vehicle. The device may determine that an idling ...