US Patent Issued to HERE GLOBAL on Feb. 25 for "Method, apparatus, and system for estimating a lane width" (Illinois, Colorado, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,691, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and system for estimating a lane width" was invented by Zhenhua Zhang (Chicago), Qi Mao (Arlington, Texas), Xiaoying Jin (Boulder, Colo.), Lin Gan (Chicago) and Sanjay Kumar Boddhu (Aurora, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for lane width estimation from incomplete lane marking detections of a road lane. The approach, for example, involves generating one or more perpendicular lines respectively from location centers of one or more first lane marking detections. A respective lane marking detection represents...