US Patent Issued to Geotab on Oct. 28 for "Systems and methods for identifying tailgating" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,305, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Geotab Inc. (Oakville, Canada).

"Systems and methods for identifying tailgating" 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...