US Patent Issued to HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES on Aug. 12 for "Methods for high occupancy vehicle lane discipline" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,397, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Methods for high occupancy vehicle lane discipline" was invented by Jacob Harel (Redwood City, Calif.), Kirubasankar Madhaiyan (Karnataka, India), Prasanna Kumar Bolisetty Yeswanth Naga (Karnataka, India) and Pradeep Anbumani (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure herein pertains to determining high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane eligibility of a vehicle and position of the vehicle with respect to an HOV lane. A method for an on board unit (OBU) of a vehicle may include receiving a traveler information message (TIM)...