ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,927, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hayden AI Technologies Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Behind the windshield camera-based perception system for autonomous traffic violation detection" was invented by Patrick L. McGuire (Oakland, Calif.), Ahmad Lemar (Union City, Calif.), Randal B. Chinnock (Ashford, Conn.), Joseph Virzi (Fremont, Calif.) and Vaibhav Ghadiok (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and apparatus for detecting a traffic violation. In one embodiment, a system for detecting a traffic violation comprises a context camera assembly and a license plate recognition (LPR) camera assemb...