US Patent Issued to HERE GLOBAL on June 10 for "Method, apparatus and computer program product for lane level toll plaza congestion modeling" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,342, issued on June 10, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus and computer program product for lane level toll plaza congestion modeling" was invented by Amarnath Nayak (Mumbai, India), Leon Stenneth (Chicago) and Advait Raut (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein may provide a method for analyzing traffic congestion at a toll plaza and identifying a preferred lane of travel through the toll plaza based on the traffic congestion. Methods may include: determining active toll lanes of all toll lanes at a toll plaza; obtaining probe data for each active toll lan...