US Patent Issued to Aptiv Technologies on Sept. 16 for "Method and apparatus for determining the speed of a vehicle travelling along a road by processing images of the road" (Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,641, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Method and apparatus for determining the speed of a vehicle travelling along a road by processing images of the road" was invented by Piotr Bogacki (Cracow, Poland), Rafal Dlugosz (Lubon, Poland) and Marzena Banach (Puszczykowo, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for determining a speed of a vehicle along a road by processing a first image and a second image of the road captured by a camera on the vehicle and comprising respective road marker images of a road marker, the apparatus arranged to: determine a location of the road...