US Patent Issued to IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES on March 18 for "Method of characterizing a route travelled by a user" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,368, issued on March 18, was assigned to IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

"Method of characterizing a route travelled by a user" was invented by Francisco Jose Gonzalez De Cossio Echeverria (Rueil-Malmaison, France), Guillaume Sabiron (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and Laurent Thibault (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a method of characterizing a route (T) travelled by a user. The method comprises a step of locating and timestamping measurement during the ride (MES), then determining a modified discrete Frechet distance (DFM) between the measured route and previous routes. ...