US Patent Issued to HERE Global on Feb. 10 for "Method, apparatus, and system for providing digital street hailing" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,611, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HERE Global B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and system for providing digital street hailing" was invented by Ron Livne (Netanya, Israel) and Silviu Zilberman (Rishon le-Zion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is disclosed for providing digital street hailing. The approach involves, for example, initiating an activation of a camera of a passenger device to present live imagery thereon. The approach also involves processing sensor data collected from sensor(s) of the passenger device to determine a pointing direction of the camera. The approach further involves ...