ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,578, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Harman Becker Automotive Systems Gmbh (Karlsbad-Ittersbach, Germany).

"Techniques for providing speed limit information" was invented by Liviu Lucian Cristea (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure set forth techniques for providing speed limit information to a vehicle. In an aspect, a computer-implemented method includes receiving, from a vehicle, navigation information associated with the vehicle; determining one or more predicted positions associated with the vehicle based on the navigation information; determining one or more candidate map regions associ...