US Patent Issued to Geotab on Oct. 14 for "Snap to road, popular routes, popular stops, predicting roadway speed, and contiguous region identification" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,643, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Geotab Inc. (Oakville, Canada).

"Snap to road, popular routes, popular stops, predicting roadway speed, and contiguous region identification" was invented by Daniel Jacob Lewis (Cambridge, Canada) and Chien An Liu (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for associating vehicle trip data with a base map are provided herein. Systems and methods for providing vehicle trip data showing the greatest usage of routes between an origin and destination are also provided. Systems and methods for predicting a speed limit of a road based on vehicle trip data are also provide...