ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,121, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to HERE GLOBAL B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Determining traffic violation hotspots" was invented by Amarnath Nayak (Mumbai, India) and Jerome Beaurepaire (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for determining traffic violation hotspots based on roadway feature and/or sensor data. Traffic violation hotspots include, for example areas where traffic violations are more likely to occur such as traffic light jumping, wrong way driving, over speeding, not wearing seatbelt, avoiding stop signs and red lights, distracted driving, passing other vehicles in a no-passing zone, among ot...