ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,370, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and computer program product for determining benefit of restricted travel lane" was invented by Daniela Radakovic (Chicago), Arnold Sheynman (Northbrook, Ill.) and Kyle Jackson (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for evaluating traffic conditions across a plurality of lanes to determine whether it is advantageous to travel in the restricted travel lane. Methods may include: receiving a plurality of probe data points, each probe data point received from a probe appara...