US Patent Issued to HERE GLOBAL on May 13 for "Method, apparatus, and system for traffic estimation based on anomaly detection" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,080, issued on May 13, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and system for traffic estimation based on anomaly detection" was invented by David Jonietz (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for traffic estimation/detection based on anomaly detection. The approach involves, for instance, retrieving probe data or other sensor data collected from sensors of devices traveling in a geographic area. The approach also involves aggregating the probe or sensor data into a sequence of frames. Each frame comprises a plurality of spatial cells representing the geogra...