ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,162, issued on June 3, was assigned to Geotab Inc. (Oakville, Canada).

"Systems and methods for training vehicle collision and near-miss detection models" was invented by Joy Mazumder (Etobicoke, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, models, and training for collision detection and near miss detection are discussed. Models are trained to identify collisions and near misses between two vehicles, based on how quickly a bounding box size changes for a vehicle represented in image data. Rapidly changing bounding box size is indicative of extreme proximity between vehicles, and thus indicative of collision or near-miss sc...