ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,057, issued on March 25, was assigned to International Electronic Machines Corp. (Troy, N.Y.).

"Image-based vehicle evaluation for non-compliant elements" was invented by Zahid F. Mian (Loudonville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solution for evaluating passing vehicles can include one or more imaging devices and a computing unit for processing image data acquired by the imaging device(s). The imaging devices can acquire image data that enables the computing unit to accurately identify a location of an element of the vehicle in an area that includes a region in which the passing vehicle is located and a restricted region in w...