US Patent Issued to HERE Global on Sept. 16 for "Method, apparatus, and system for traffic incident verification" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,512, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to HERE Global B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method, apparatus, and system for traffic incident verification" was invented by Leon Stenneth (Chicago), Alex Averbuch (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Advait Mohan Raut (MH, India), Bruce Bernhardt (Wauconda, Ill.) and Jingwei Xu (Buffalo Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for traffic incident verification involves receiving a traffic message channel (TMC) message indicating a traffic incident. The TMC message indicates an extent of the traffic incident in a road graph using TMC location code(s)/offset(s). The approach also involves matc...