US Patent Issued to HERE Global on Feb. 3 for "Traffic prediction and routing using train movement patterns" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,827, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to HERE Global B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Traffic prediction and routing using train movement patterns" was invented by James Adeyemi Fowe (Evanston, Ill.) and Bruce Bernhardt (Wauconda, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for calculating an estimated travel time and a method and apparatus for defining a model configured to estimate a travel time are provided. The method for estimating a travel time includes obtaining a movement pattern for a train, determining one or more predicted times when the train will be present at a train crossing where a road path and a train pat...