ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,967, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HAAS Inc. (Chicago).

"Methods and systems for vehicle alerting based on map data model with links and nodes" was invented by Jigar Patel (Arlington Heights, Ill.), Cory Hohs (Chicago) and Surya Sonti (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a method and non-transitory computer readable mediums for vehicle alerting are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method for vehicle alerting involves populating a database with vehicle entries, the vehicle entries in the database including a vehicle identifier (ID) and at least one of a node ID and a link ID that correspond to a digital map that...