US Patent Issued to HERE Global on May 20 for "Method, apparatus, and system for traffic prediction based on road segment travel time reliability" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,886, issued on May 20, was assigned to HERE Global B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and system for traffic prediction based on road segment travel time reliability" was invented by Jingwei Xu (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Yuxin Guan (Chicago), Bruce Bernhardt (Wauconda, Ill.), Weimin Huang (Chicago) and Ian He (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for traffic data blending based on road segment travel time reliability during traffic prediction. The approach involves, for instance, retrieving real-time traffic information and/or historical traffic information for each road segment within a geograph...