ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,289, issued on June 3, was assigned to HERE Global B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and system of special vehicle notification in HD map to improve AV driving safety" was invented by Jingwei Xu (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for systems for special vehicle detection and notifications. Connected vehicle probe and sensor data is acquired and processed to detect the presence of a special vehicle using one or more machine learning models. Attributes are determined for the special vehicle based on additional information. An informational message/notification is composed and sent to vehicles in the vicinity...