ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,385, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Estimating moving vehicle weight based on driving data" was invented by Yu Ying YY Wang (Xian, China), Han Ying Song (Xian, China), Deng Xin Luo (Xian, China), Yong Wang (Xian, China), Chi Nan (Xian, China) and Xiang Yu Yang (Xian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for automatically predicting vehicle weight of a moving vehicle. Vehicle operation data is obtained from one or more on-board sensors/systems of the vehicle and features are extracted. The features are filtered based on a required working condition of t...