ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,860, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Beijing Institute of Technology (Beijing).

"Method, system and apparatus for recognizing continuous driving style" was invented by Chaopeng Zhang (Beijing), Junqiang Xi (Beijing), Wenshuo Wang (Beijing), Yao Wei (Beijing), Zhaokun Chen (Beijing) and Zikun Zhou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and apparatus for recognizing continuous driving style are provided, which involve the intelligent vehicles field. The method comprises: collecting multi-dimensional driving data from a plurality of drivers in daily driving scenarios, segmenting the driving data to obtain a plurality ...