ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,151, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Object trail analytics" was invented by Jun Wang (Xi'an, China), Jing Xu (Xi'an, China), Wen Pei Yu (Xian, China), Lei Gao (Xian, China), Jin Wang (Xi'an, China) and A Peng Zhang (Xian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a structure, and a computer system for object trail analytics. The exemplary embodiments may include obtaining time series data detailing an average speed of one or more roads within a traffic network at one or more times. The exemplary embodiments may further include extracting one or more features correspondin...