US Patent Issued to HERE Global on Sept. 16 for "Methods and systems for predicting traffic information for at least one map tile area" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,697, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to HERE Global B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Methods and systems for predicting traffic information for at least one map tile area" was invented by Jingwei Xu (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), James Joseph (Chicago), Bruce Bernhardt (Wauconda, Ill.), Ian He (Chicago), Joe Ciprian (Chicago), Weimin Huang (Chicago) and Yuxin Guan (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a method, a system, and a computer program product for predicting traffic information for at least one map tile area. The method comprises obtaining probe data and map attribute data for each of a plurality of road se...