ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,374, issued on July 8, was assigned to Geotab Inc. (Oakville, Canada).
"Methods for detecting vehicle following distance" was invented by Joy Mazumder (Etobicoke, Canada), Shashank Saurav (Toronto), Javed Siddique (York, Canada) and Mohammed Sohail Siddique (Milton, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, models, and training data for models are discussed, for determining vehicle positioning, and in particular identifying tailgating. Simulated training images showing vehicles following other vehicles, under various conditions, are generated using a virtual environment. Models are trained to determine following distance...