ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,347, issued on Nov. 25.
"Digital geospatial breadcrumbs" was invented by Thomas Edward Debruyn (Minneapolis) and Taylor Hawley (Oak Park, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein allow vehicles in specific areas to create secure and encrypted breadcrumbs indicating paths along which they have traveled. The breadcrumbs may be created using sensor data from connected vehicle platforms. These breadcrumbs include information about the road surface, wheel traction, vehicle velocity, and observed event data using the platform's camera lenses and computer vision. Vehicles can record these breadcrumbs and ass...